October 2007 Vol. 2 No. 10 |
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RD411.com Keeps Growing – Check Out Just A Few of This Month’s New Resources! It was wonderful to meet so many devoted RD411 users at FNCE. Thank you for all the wonderful feedback and new ideas. We have many exciting things planned for 2008 so stay tuned! And a big RD411 welcome to all the new visitors and friends we met in Philadelphia. We hope you will find the site helpful – take some time to look around because we have hundreds of resources all FREE for your use. RD411’s mission is to provide you with easily accessible, reliable materials to help you do your job. Think of RD411 as your virtual assistant! The less time you spend reinventing the wheel, the more time you’ll have for your patients and clients. You are welcome to download, modify, and distribute any materials you find on RD411 for free! Let RD411 help you with policies, in-services, patient handouts, reference materials and much more! |
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New in the Wound Resource Center Do you have trouble describing the difference between a Stage 2 and a Stage 3 pressure ulcer? Does your staff really understand deep tissue injury? Check out our new illustrations to clear up the picture. These illustrations are also available for you to download into your own slide presentations so be sure to visit the slide library. |
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New in the Diabetes Center Do your patients with diabetes want to have their cake and eat it too? Our new patient education sheet Baking With Sugar Substitutes helps your patients understand how to adjust their recipes using the different artificial sweeteners available. Now that’s sweet! |
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Are Your Menus Nutritionally Adequate? This month, consultant Nancy Giles Walters, MMSc, RD, LD, FADA shares her personal checklist to save you time and help assure your menus meet requirements. This form was requested by dozens of RD411 users so we hope you find it useful! |
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Would You Like to Help Your Clients Cope Better With Home Enteral Nutrition? Cheryl Thompson, PhD, RD, CNSD shares her 52 page manual with RD411 users to help patients find coping mechanisms that work for the challenges of home enteral nutrition. The manual describes 29 different strategies because what works for me, may not work for you. |
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Energy Needs for the Obese Patient Contributing Editor Elizabeth Friedrich, MPH, RD, LD/N reviews the topic of estimating caloric needs in obese patients. Since there seems to be so much discrepancy and uncertainty on how best to do this, read the review and get involved in the discussion. |
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Do You Have Patients Taking Coumadin? If so, you will want to download this new handout on drug-nutrient interactions with Coumadin. It is important that patients have a complete understanding of this topic so let RD411 help you prepare a custom educational piece for your facility. Just click the Download link to put the handout in your own word processing so you can customize it! |
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Product News: Glucerna Cereals from Abbott Nutrition (formerly known as Ross) Glucerna has recently launched a line of cereals available in 3 delicious flavors: Crunchy Flakes 'n Raisins, Crunchy Flakes 'n Strawberries, and Crunchy Flakes 'n Almonds to help manage blood glucose levels. The cereal contains: * Chromium picolinate to help the body's own insulin work better * Uniquely-designed carbohydrate blend consisting of wheat bran, whole wheat flour, sucromalt, fructose, and corn bran to help minimize glycemic response * 5g or whole grains Glucerna Cereal can be found in the diabetes section of the pharmacy at most food, drug, and mass retailers. |
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Form of the Month: Weekly Weight Tracking Record As the old adage goes, if it isn’t documented, it isn’t done. Make sure your weights are documented on a clean, easy to read form. This one is ready to go – just download and print it out. |
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Read for FREE, Pay for CE RD411 and Nutrition Dimension bring RD411 users 8 different complete continuing education courses for free. If you only want the information, you can print it out and read it directly from RD411.com. If you need the credit, just click to connect with Nutrition Dimension. With all the talk about litigation, you won’t want to miss the course called Legal Self Protection: Contracts, Confidentiality, and Conflicts. Now, that is interesting reading! |
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Want to Help a Busy Colleague? RD411’s philosophy is simple – the more successful each individual dietitian is, the more successful the profession is as a whole. This is a community site and we welcome submissions, ideas, and suggestions from all colleagues and practitioners. If you have developed a great policy, a helpful form, or have another idea to share, contact Dr. Nancy Collins, PhD, RD, LD/N at RD411Office@gmail.com. Our goal is to get you out of the office and back with patients or clients doing what you do best! |
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