End the Epidemic of Childhood Obesity…One Family at a Time
By Marti Jordan-Welch and Bonnie Lee Harbaugh
Expiration Date: December 31, 2009. No CE contact hours (CH) will be given after this date.
Purpose: To provide registered nurses with evidence-based strategies for managing childhood obesity.
Objectives:
- Describe the obesity epidemic and its consequences.
- Describe the guidelines of the American Medical Association’s Expert Committee on the Assessment, Prevention, and Treatment of Child and Adolescent Overweight and Obesity.
- Discuss the role of the nurse in preventing and managing childhood obesity.
- Explain the staged approach to treatment of childhood obesity.
Description: The number of overweight American children keeps growing at a rate that's hard to swallow. And so does the number of American children at risk for becoming overweight. Unless we stop the spread of this problem now, the long-term debilitating effects on today's children - and ultimately, on their children-will exhaust our healthcare resources.
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Marti Jordan-Welch is an Assistant Professor, and Bonnie Lee Harbaugh is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi School of Nursing in Hattiesburg.
Marti Jordan-Welch holds stock in Pfizer. Bonnie Lee Harbaugh and the planners of this CNE activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships with any commercial companies pertaining to this activity.
1.5 contact hours are provided by ANA.
The American Nurses Association Center for Continuing Education and Professional Development is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
ANA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP6178.
