Tackling Obesity in Healthcare: Strategies for Nurses

Topic
This nursing webinar is designed to address the multifaceted challenges of obesity within healthcare settings. The sessions will cover key topics such as understanding obesity trends, assessment and intervention strategies, promoting lifestyle changes, addressing obesity-related stigma, and collaborating within interdisciplinary teams for comprehensive obesity management. By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to discuss obesity trends, health implications, and associated comorbidities, and describe assessment skills and intervention strategies for effective obesity management in clinical practice including counseling skills to promote lifestyle changes, healthy behaviors, and patient engagement in obesity care.

Credits Offered
This event offers 5.0 contact hours to attendees.
Accreditation Info: Saint Anselm College is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Additional Information
This program is designed for nurses and other professionals involved in health initiatives related to obesity management.