Continuing Education

Continuing education is a vital and growing need for healthcare professionals. As the leader in home nutrition support, we strive to continuously enhance patient care and professional growth by advancing the knowledge, skills and understanding of TPN and tube feeding therapies, promoting best practice and positive patient outcomes.

We proudly offer Continuing Education credits* to healthcare professionals via self-study courses and live, onsite presentations.

To learn more about our Continuing Education programs, contact us.

Online Self-Study CE Series

Overcoming Catheter-related Infection Challenges
This course features the narration and discussion of current thought leaders in parenteral nutrition. Each course takes approximately one hour to complete and offers 1.0 RN/RD credit.

Diagnosing Catheter-related Blood Stream Infections (Available Now!)

• Presenter: Ezra Steiger, MD • Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
• Level: Intermediate
• Credits: 1.0 RD/1.0 RN
• Start the Course

Patient Education Key to Prevention of CRBSI (Available Now!)

• Presenter: Mark DeLegge, MD • Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston
• Level: Beginner
• Credits: 1.0 RD/1.0 RN
• Start the Course

The A, B, C's of Central Line Occlusion - Prevention, Diagnosis,
and Treatment (Available Now!)

• Presenter: Lillian Harvey Banchik, MD • North Shore Hospital, NY
• Level: Beginner/Intermediate
• Credits: 1.0 RD/1.0 RN
• Start the Course

Identifying Patients at Risk for Catheter-related Infections (Coming Soon)

• Presenter: Bob Saggi, MD • Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX
• Level: Intermediate
• Credits: 1.0 RD/1.0 RN

Live Onsite CE Courses: Beginner

Contact your local Apria or Coram representative to schedule an onsite CE presentation.

Initiating Home Parenteral Nutrition

• Overview: This presentation provides a complete overview of parenteral nutrition, the assessment process, initiating parenteral nutrition in the home and monitoring guidelines.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Social Worker, Medical Resident, Physician, RD, RPh, RN, Patient Support Group, Home Health Agency
• Level: Beginner
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.25 RN/1.25 SW

Management of the TPN Patient

• Overview: This presentation is a detailed overview of the nutrition assessment process, including clinical and complications management.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Social Worker, Medical Resident, Physician, RD, RPh, RN, Patient Support Group, Home Health Agency
• Level: Beginner
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN/1.0 SW

Medicare Part B Reimbursement for Tube Feeding

• Overview: This program reviews the Medicare Part B coverage criteria for home tube feeding. It reviews the classifications for payment of formulas, supplies and equipment used to administer enteral nutrition in the home.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Social Worker, RD, RPh, RN, Home Health Agency
• Level: Beginner
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN/1.0 SW

Nutrition Skills for Case Managers

• Overview: This presentation reviews home nutrition support incidence, cost of delivery and payor mix. It discusses specific tools that a case manager may use to identify patients at nutritional risk and apply the appropriate nutrition intervention. This program also reviews the Home Nutrition Support Team Model of care to enhance nutrition support, patient, clinical and cost outcomes.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Social Worker
• Level: Beginner
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN/1.0 SW

Successful Management of Home Tube Feeding

• Overview: This program explores the considerations for safe and effective home tube feeding. It identifies the common practices and discusses the best practice solutions.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Social Worker, RD, RPh, RN, Home Health Agency
• Level: Beginner
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN/1.0 SW

The Nuts and Bolts of Enteral Nutrition

• Overview: This program reviews the indications for tube feeding and discusses the reimbursement guidelines for enteral therapy or tube feeding therapy in the home care setting.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Social Worker, RD, RPh, RN, Home Health Agency
• Level: Beginner
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN/1.0 SW

Transitioning the Pediatric Enteral Patient to Home

• Overview: This program identifies the types of malnutrition in children and related consequences. It reviews the common diagnoses and reviews the nutrition assessment guidelines for the pediatric patient.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Social Worker, RD, RPh, RN, Home Health Agency
• Level: Beginner
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN/1.0 SW

Live Onsite CE Courses: Beginner/Intermediate

Contact your local Apria or Coram representative to schedule an onsite CE presentation.

Nutritional Aspects of Wound Healing

• Overview: This program reviews the normal healing process as well as the critical role of nutrition in wound healing.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Social Worker, RD, RPh, RN, Home Health Agency
• Level: Beginner/Intermediate
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN/1.0 SW

Transition of Nutrition Therapies from Acute Care to Home Care

• Overview: This program reviews how to transition parenteral and enteral nutrition therapies from the acute care setting to the home care setting. It reviews not only the clinical aspects of transitioning, but what is needed to ensure insurance coverage as well.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Social Worker, RD, RPh, RN, Home Health Agency
• Level: Beginner/Intermediate
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN/1.0 SW

Weight Management in the Face of the Obesity Epidemic

• Overview: This program identifies the impact on the healthcare system of the current obesity epidemic, and reviews the concepts of both metabolic syndrome and nutrigenomics.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Social Worker, RD, RN, RPh, Home Health Agency
  
• Level: Beginner/Intermediate
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN/1.0 SW

Live Onsite CE Courses: Intermediate

Contact your local Apria or Coram representative to schedule an onsite CE presentation.

An Integrated Approach to Patient Care Management of Pancreatitis

• Overview: This program provides a comprehensive review of the pathophysiology of acute and chronic pancreatitis. Included is a review of the nutritional and pain management concerns as well as the associated treatment. The emphasis is the comprehensive management approach that is needed to promote optimal outcomes.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Social Worker, RD, RPh, RN, Home Health Agency
• Level: Intermediate
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN/1.0 SW

Assessing Vitamin and Mineral Status in Long-term Parenteral Nutrition Patients

• Overview: This program describes the clinical deficiency signs and symptoms of select vitamins and minerals. It also reviews the high-risk conditions for developing vitamin and mineral deficiencies while on home parenteral nutrition.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Social Worker, RD, RPh, RN, Home Health Agency
• Level: Intermediate
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN/1.0 SW

Ethics in Nutrition Support

• Overview: This program presents the arguments for and against continuation and discontinuation of nutrition support. It also reviews the landmark Supreme Court decisions and the role of the healthcare professional in educating patients regarding nutrition support options.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Social Worker, Medical Resident, Physician, RD, RPh, RN, Home Health Agency
• Level: Intermediate
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN/1.0 SW

Intradialytic Parenteral Nutrition (IDPN) and Intraperitoneal Nutrition (IPN)

• Overview: This presentation discusses malnutrition related to chronic kidney disease and the identification of appropriate candidates for IDPN and IPN therapy. This program also reviews appropriate IPDN and IPN prescriptions.
• Suggested Participants: Dialysis Center RNs, RDs, Case Managers, Discharge Planners and Physicians who manage patients with chronic kidney disease
• Level: Intermediate
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN

Medicare Reimbursement of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition

• Overview: This presentation explains Medicare reimbursement guidelines for patients on enteral or parenteral nutrition therapy and how to properly qualify a patient for enteral or parenteral therapy coverage in the home care setting.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Social Worker, Physician, RD, RPh, RN, Home Health Agency
• Level: Intermediate
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN/1.0 SW

Nutrition Management after Bariatric Surgery

• Overview: The presentation reviews the prevalence of obesity and details the types of bariatric surgeries performed. Additionally, it outlines the associated nutritional recommendations post-surgery and the related medical complications most often seen after bariatric surgery.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Social Worker, Payor Medical Director, Physician, RD, RPh, RN, Home Health Agency
• Level: Intermediate
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN/1.0 SW

Nutritional Management of the Pediatric Patient

• Overview: This program will assist the clinician in recognizing malnutrition in pediatric patients, how to assess their unique nutritional needs and the types of nutrition intervention available, including parenteral nutrition and guidelines for parenteral nutrition therapy delivery.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Social Worker, RD, RPh, RN, Home Health Agency
• Level: Intermediate
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN/1.0 SW

Nutrition Support for Solid Organ and Blood Cell Transplant Recipients

• Overview: This presentation provides an overview of the differing nutrition goals of the pre- and pos- transplant patient, discusses the nutritional implications of immunosuppression, and identifies the nutritional alterations and post-transplant complications affecting nutritional status.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Medical Resident, Hospitalist and other Physicians, RD, RN, RPh, Home Health Agency
• Level: Intermediate
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN

Nutrition Support in the Oncology Patient

• Overview: This is a comprehensive summary of nutrition and oncology with focus on the potential negative impact cancer and cancer treatments may have on nutritional status.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Social Worker, Medical Resident, Physician, RD, RPh, RN, Home Health Agency
• Level: Intermediate
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN/1.0 SW

Nutrition Support in Pregnancy and Hyperemesis Gravidarum

• Overview: This presentation provides a full explanation of the unique considerations for nutrition support in pregnancy including when to intervene and ongoing monitoring parameters for the pregnant patient on home nutrition support.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Social Worker, Medical Resident, Physician, RD, RPh, RN, Home Health Agency
• Level: Intermediate
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN

Nutritional Issues and Crohn's Disease

• Overview: This is a review of the potential etiologies and nutritional requirements of patients with Crohn's disease. The program discusses the role of specialized nutrition support, including home nutrition support, in the treatment and management of Crohn's.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Social Worker, RD, RPh, RN, Home Health Agency
• Level: Intermediate
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN/1.0 RPh/1.0 SW

Oral vs. Parenteral Iron Supplementation in the Home Nutrition Support Patient

• Overview: This program reviews the physiologic process of and key factors associated with iron absorption and deficiency. It examines the application of currently available research to the supplementation of iron in the home nutrition patient.
• Suggested Participants: Pharmacist, RD, RN, Physician, Case Manager, Discharge Planner,
  Home Health Agency Nurse
• Level: Intermediate
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN

Outpatient Nutrition in the Geriatric Patient Population

• Overview: This presentation provides an overview of the physiologic changes of the aging process, the confounding factors when assessing the elderly, the guidelines for successful implementation of nutrition support, and the benefits, burdens and ethical consideration of nutrition support interventions.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Medical Resident, Hospitalist and other Physicians, RD, RN, RPh, Home Health Agency
• Level: Intermediate
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN

Short Bowel Syndrome and Nutrition: An Overview

• Overview: This program reviews normal absorption and physiology of the gastrointestinal tract. It reviews the causes of short bowel syndrome and the nutritional and medical challenges for patients with short bowel syndrome.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Social Worker, RD, RPh, RN, Home Health Agency
• Level: Beginner/Intermediate
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN/1.0 SW

Refeeding Syndrome: The Silent Killer

• Overview: This program defines refeeding syndrome and reviews patients at risk. Additionally guidelines for safe initiation of parenteral nutrition are reviewed.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Social Worker, RD, RPh, RN, Home Health Agency
• Level: Intermediate
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN/1.0 SW

Vitamin D: Nutrient of the Decade

• Overview: This presentation provides a complete overview of the characteristics of vitamin D, its food sources, mechanism of deficiency in specific disease states and its role in the prevention of many diseases. Current recommendations for repletion and disease prevention are also discussed.
• Suggested Participants: Case Manager, Discharge Planner, Home Health Agency, Medical Resident, Nurse Practitioner, Physician, Physician Assistant, RD, RN
• Level: Intermediate
• Credits: 1.0 CCM/1.0 RD/1.0 RN
  
  

 

*Coram Specialty Infusion Services, an Apria Healthcare Company, is accredited as an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #11609.
Coram approved by the Delaware Board of Nursing, Provider Number DE-11-030314.
AAACEUS.com, Provider #1093, is an approved provider of Social Work continuing ed by the Association of Social Work Boards and is partnering with Coram to offer pre-approved CEUs for RNs, Social Workers, CCM, CRC, CDMS and more.
Coram Specialty Infusion Services, an Apria Helthcare Company, is a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Accredited Provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). Registered dietitians (RDs) and dietetic technicians, registered (DTRs) will receive 1.0 continuing professional education units (CPEUs) for completion of this program/material. CDR Provider #CO100.
The New Jersey Society of Health-System Pharmacists (NJSHP) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmaceutical education.  Upon completion of appropriate forms, statements of continuing pharmacy education credit will be electronically mailed 4-6 weeks after the program.