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Goals and Learning Outcomes

Patients living with wounds face nutritional challenges, which can greatly affect their ability to heal unless properly addressed. Nutrition science has reached the next level as our understanding of protein, amino acids, and the collagen dipeptides prolyl-hydroxyproline (PO) and hydroxypropyl glycine (OG), has grown. This session will first address the nutritional requirements for protein and how best to meet this need. Then the breakdown of protein into amino acids will be discussed with an emphasis on the amino acid arginine and its role in wound healing. Finally, the effect of collagen dipeptides on wound healing will be explored with a discussion of the scientific evidence. This continuing education activity was supported by an educational grant from Medtrition.

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  • Explain the physiologic requirement for protein and how best to meet this need in patients with a wound
  • Describe the breakdown of protein into component amino acids and the role of arginine
  • Relate how collagen dipeptides function in the wound healing process

Course Termination Date: Not yet determined

Content Expiration Date: 12/31/25

Course Originally Released On: 05/01/24

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Accreditation Information

Nurse.com Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791

Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.

 

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Disclosures

None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.