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I wanted to share some things I have learned from experiencing the switch over to the EMR at Robinson. I am not sure that this information will apply to all facilities but I thought it may be helpful in case it comes up with our summer clinical rotations. Here are some abbreviations & acronyms that they told us we will see with computer charting. ·          EMR- Electronic Medical Record ·          EHR- Electronic Health Record ·          SCM- Sunrise Clinical Manager (Allscripts) ·          CPM- Clinical Practice Model ·          KBC- Knowledge Based Charting ·          A&I- Assessment and Intervention Flowsheet ·          CPG- Clinical Practice Guideline ·  ...

In the Nutrition Care Manual, I found this great educational handout for patients. It gives them tips for managing multiple food allergies, as well as, explaining how to understand the advisory statements on food labels, nutrition tips, safe food preparation tips, shopping tips, eating out tips and travel tips. I thought it was great to see all the additional websites it gave for more resources. I found it to be very helpful and useful! Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Nutrition Care Manual. Food Allergies: tips for managing multiple food allergies. http://nutritioncaremanual.org/vault/editor/Docs/MultipleFoodAllergiesTips2.pdf . Accessed March 5, 2013. PG  

Hey yall! I found this while searching through the Nutrition Care Manual and thought it would be great for everyone to have! It is a short handout on how to cite information from the manual. Enjoy! Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Nutrition Care Manual. How Do I Cite the Nutrition Care Manual (NCM)?. http://nutritioncaremanual.org/vault/Citing%20NCM(1).pdf . Accessed March 5, 2013. PG  

I have attached to this post two articles about a college freshman losing his life due to his peanut allergy.  This story cements the clinical significance of food allergies and the importance in being aware and vigilant to avoid the allergy.  Brian W. Food allergy death article 1 Food allergy death article 2

    In our Perspectives in Community Nutrition class today we were informed energy drinks,specifically, 5 hour energy have been linked to two deaths within the United States and the FDA is currently investigating these adverse event reports. On TV, 5 hour energy now has a commercial with all kinds of vegetables flowing out of the bottle's opening sending a message to consumers  these energy shots are healthy and packed with B vitamins. Symptoms associated with 5 hour energy drinks in the adverse events report include tachycardia, dyspnea, myocardial infarctions, vomiting, hyperventilation, disorientation,convulsions etc (See all symptoms in report below). http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AboutFDA/CentersOffices/OfficeofFoods/CFSAN/CFSANFOIAElectronicReadingRoom/UCM328270.pdf Interestingly, a two ounce, 5 hour energy shot contains around 135-200 mg of caffeine while the FDA states 400 mg of caffeine daily is not associated with adverse effects in healthy adults. It wi...

In keeping along with our last counseling tip, here is a great blog article about mindful eating in diabetes by author Michelle May, PhD. I had the opportunity to listen to her lecture at FNCE on this same topic (Eat What You Love with Diabetes: How to Use the Mindful Eating Cycle for Self-Management) last year, and here are some key points from that lecture : There are several eating cycles, consisting of questions, "Why-->When-->What-->How-->How Much-->Where-->Why". There is the instinctive eating cycle, where one may eat what they want with the intention of eating to survive.  There is the overeating cycle, where one may eat what they want because of emotional, physical or environmental triggers such as stress, fear, boredom or because of the cost of the food.                          At this point, Michelle posed an interesting question...

An article entitled “Risk of hospitalization or death from ischemic heart disease among British vegetarians and nonvegetarians: results from the EPIC-Oxford cohort study” was recently published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.   The purpose of this study was to determine whether there were significant differences in ischemic heart disease risk between individuals consuming a vegetarian diet and those consuming a nonvegetarian diet.   The researchers conducted the study on a sample of 44,561 men and women from England and Scotland, 34% of whom were vegetarians.   Because previous studies have demonstrated that vegetarians have lower LDL-cholesterol concentrations, blood pressures, and diabetes risk, it was predicted that vegetarians would also have lower ischemic heart disease risk.   The average patient follow-up in this study was 11.6 years, and after this period, 1235 of the subjects had experienced ischemic heart disease (1066 hospit...