Food as Medicine: Care Management and Nursing Role in Preventing and Remission of Chronic Disease - Online Course

Poor nutrition is the leading cause of chronic disease and disability plaguing the US and many other nations today. Lifestyle medicine uses evidence-based therapeutic interventions and highlights the plant-predominant diet to address the root cause of illness. The care manager and nursing role is vital to empower patients to take control of their health to prevent and in many cases greatly improve chronic illness. This presentation will provide key strategies to promote behavior change.

This course will retire after 13th August 2027.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

After participating in this course, learners will be able to:

1. Describe the goal of lifestyle medicine and identify the 6 pillars
2. Summarize the essence of the whole food plant-based diet
3. Describe care management interventions that will empower patients to achieve improved health with dietary changes
4. Identify behavior change strategies to help empower the patient

SPEAKER BIO:

Nan Robinson, BSN, RN, CCM, DipACLM
Nan has been a nurse for 20+ years. She started her career in Chicago at Rush Presbyterian St. Lukes Hospital in hematology/oncology and bone marrow transplant units. She then moved to Michigan and became a pediatric triage nurse in the clinical setting, specializing in asthma education for the pediatric division. In 2015, she became a certified care manager and in 2017 spend 5 years as a manager of the care managers. She heard a lecture about lifestyle medicine and was forever changed. When she heard about a lifestyle medicine group starting at her organization, she wanted to be part of it and reached out to several key people in the organization to encourage them to bring a nurse to the team. Since 2021 she has been the Lifestyle Medicine Care Manager Nurse and continues to help build the program.