Linking Diet and Disease Conference (Dec, 2018)

Linking Diet and Disease Conference is organized by Ausmed Education Pty Ltd and will be held from Dec 13 - 14, 2018 at Oaks on Collins, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The target audience for this medical event is Nurses. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 11.00 CPD Hours.

Course Overview:
It’s easy to list foods in our diet and say whether they’re good for us or not, right? But – is it true? Is good or not true for all of us? And in what context, specifically? And, most importantly – WHY? As a population, we need to ask; how exactly is diet linked to disease? The growing relationship between chronic illness and food means that, increasingly, nurses are required to know how and why a person’s health needs to change. Modern thinking now suggests that striving to improve health is no longer as simple as “input versus output”. Attend this conference to learn how diet and disease are actually linked. Find out how you can really enable your patients to improve their health. Discover:
• Why everything we put in our mouths is within our control
• The brain’s response to an “obesogenic” environment
• How the gut microbiome is connected to health
• How successful medicines are for weight loss
• Getting “buy-in” from patients who resist change and much

Need for Program:
The established connections between chronic illness and food mean that, increasingly, nurses are required to explain these connections and engage with patients to meaningfully improve their health. This ability to recognize and act on clinical indicators of impaired health as a result of diet is becoming a key feature of modern nursing. Nurses need to demonstrate nutritional literacy to assist a person to improve their health outcomes and, importantly, to prevent and in some cases treat their disease. As people, often with the same questions and struggles as their patients, there’s a timely need time to empower nurses to help themselves in order to help others.

Purpose of Program:
The purpose of this conference is to examine the link between diet and disease and integrate this knowledge into nursing practice in order to improve health outcomes for patients.

Learning Objectives:
• Understand the broad links between certain foods and chronic illness to explain them to your patient
• Use the data from a nutritional assessment to assist in the identification and improvement of a patient’s health status
• Explain simple approaches to weight loss and maintenance to your patients to assist them to overcome barriers to weight loss
• Combine holistic nursing and health coaching principles to engage with patients and enable them to improve their health outcomes

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.