(HS Albores 078601 2023) Incorporating Lifestyle Medicine into Practice: Powerful Approach to Preventative Care
Tracking # 20-1103224
Course overview
Have you ever heard... "Patients don't change." "Don't waste your valuable few minutes on counseling; better to use medications, which we know work." It's time to change this perception! In primary care, we have all been challenged by our patients with co-morbidities... hypertension, depression, obesity, prediabetes, chronic pain, and more. We all know about the specialty of preventive medicine... but lifestyle medicine remains elusive for many of us. So how do we offer evidence-based lifestyle medicine interventions as the first and primary mode of preventing and, when appropriate, treating chronic disease? We all know that modifiable behaviors - especially unhealthy eating and physical inactivity - are major drivers of death, disease, and healthcare costs.... but we don't all focus on this in our practice. What you will learn how to.... Empower patients and equip them with tools necessary for self-care and self-management of lifestyle-related health problems Create a practice environment that supports healthy lifestyle and choices Incorporate lifestyle changes for diabetes, cardiovascular disease... and more! Transform your practice and incorporate lifestyle medicine into every encounter. When you are trained in lifestyle medicine you are able to diagnose patients, prescribe medications only as needed, and create individualized treatment plans for promoting healthy lifestyles. You can improve patient outcomes and see sustainable results! In this course, you will hear from six experts in lifestyle medicine, clinicians who are incorporating these practices every day. You will receive the information you need to: Implement lifestyle interventions in time-strapped clinical practices Use health coaching to facilitate behavior change in key lifestyle areas Control Cardiovascular Disease... Lipid control, hypertension, and blood pressure control Manage Diabetes... prevent and reverse the symptoms Assess patient's strengths and weaknesses, resources, preferences, and stage of change Learn to treat, reverse, and prevent chronic disease through lifestyle change Supplement the care you deliver Use lifestyle medicine with your pediatric patients
Subject areas
This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.
Florida Board of Nursing
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
Licensed Practical Nurse
Registered Nurse
Disclosure statements
Financial: Jessica Albores has an employment relationship with Upward Health. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jessica Albores is a member of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and the Louisiana Association of Nurse Practitioners.
Financial: Josie Bidwell has an employment relationship with the University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Medicine. She has a family member that has a relationship with Leflore Technologies. Josie Bidwell receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Josie Bidwell is a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, the American College of Preventive Medicine, and the Diabetes Coalition of Mississippi
Financial: LaTaya De Jesus is the founder and CEO of Eden Health Restored and Eden HR LLC. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: LaTaya De Jesus is a member of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, the National Black Nurse Practitioners Association, and the Ohio Association of Advanced Practice Nurses.
Financial: Karla Rodriguez has an employment relationship with NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Karla Rodriguez is a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, the National Health Association, the American Holistic Nurses Association, American Nurses Association, and the National League of Nursing.
Financial: Erin Sinnaeve has employment relationships with Chamberlain University, Thrive Plant Life, and Advocate Medical Group. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Erin Sinnaeve is a member of the Illinois Society of Advanced Practice Nursing, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, the American College of Lifestyle Medicine - Health Equity Achieved Through Lifestyle Medicine Secretary, and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
Financial: Dr. Elizabeth Winings maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Jacksonville University, Esselstyn Foundation, and the Engine2 Diet Immersion. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Elizabeth Winings has no relevant non-financial relationships.