Deep Dive: How to Speak Nutrition: The Basics of Nutritional Support for the Critically Ill

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Continuing Education

Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: October 22, 2025
SCCM Product Code: DEEP25B
ACE expiration date: October 22, 2026
Estimated time for activity completion: 2.25 hours

Software/Hardware and Internet Requirements

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Learning Objectives

Define a common language in planning nutritional care for their patients through the introduction of basic nutritional concepts, feeding strategies and nutritional screening
Explain when and how to use parenteral nutrition based upon the latest related guidelines
Recognize and diagnose micronutrient deficiencies in critical illness and the best approaches
for treatment
Plan nutrition support in special patient populations including those with cancer, traumatic injuries, immunosuppression and sepsis

Target Audience

This continuing education activity is intended to meet the needs of all practitioners who care for critically ill patients, including:

Advanced practice nurses
Anesthesiologists
Clinical nurse specialists
In-training practitioners
Nurses
Pharmacists
Physicians
Physician assistants
Respiratory care practitioners
Surgeons

Type of Activity

This blended activity is designed to address the challenge of providing proper nutrition to patients, especially those with serious health conditions.

Competencies

The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) supports recommendations that will promote lifelong learning through continuing education. SCCM promotes activities that encourage the highest quality in education that will enhance knowledge, competence, or performance in critical care practice. This activity will meet the following competencies:

Medical knowledge
Patient care

Claiming Credit

You can access the course materials; complete your evaluation; and claim your ACE credit by logging in to your MySCCM account with your SCCM Customer ID and password, then clicking on the icon for the course you are enrolled in under the MyLearning tab. If needed, you can click "Forgot my password" to reset your secure password.

Credit Hours

Physicians:

Accreditation Statement: The Society of Critical Care Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation Statement: The Society of Critical Care Medicine designates this blended educational activity for a maximum of 2.25 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™. Physicians should claim only those hours of credit that they actually spent in the educational activity.

The ACCME credits that physicians earn from this activity will be submitted to ACCME’s CME Passport, a free, centralized web application where you can create a personalized account to view, track, and generate transcripts of your reported ACCME credit. Visit www.cmepassport.org to create your account.

Nurses: The Deep Dive: How to Speak Nutrition - The Basics of Nutritional Support for the Critically Ill activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 2.25 contact hours.

Pharmacists: The Society of Critical Care Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This live and enduring educational activity provides up to 2.25 contact hours of continuing education credit. Enduring ACPE # - 0236-0000-25-187-H01-P

PLEASE NOTE: To claim LIVE credits, credits from each session must be claimed by the following dates:

Live Webinar	ACPE #	Credit Hours	Claim By Date
10/22/2025	0236-0000-25-186-L01-P	1.0	12/21/2025

SCCM reports to a continuing pharmacy education (CPE) tracking service, CPE Monitor, which will authenticate and store data for completed CPE units received by pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. The tracking system will make CPE data for each participant available to the state boards of pharmacy where the participant is licensed or registered. After CPE units are processed by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP), pharmacists and pharmacy technicians will be able to log in to a comprehensive electronic profile to access information about their completed CPE.

Physician Assistants: The American Academy of Physicians Assistants (AAPA) accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) or a recognized state medical society. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 2.25 Category 1 credits for completing this activity.

Maintenance of Certification

Successful completion of this accredited continuing education (ACE) activity, which includes participation and a passing score of 70% in the evaluation component/posttest, enables the participant to earn up to 2.25 medical knowledge maintenance of certification (MOC) points in the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), American Board of Anesthesia (ABA), American Board of Surgery (ABS), American Board of Pediatrics (ABP), and American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS) MOC programs. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of ACE credits claimed for the activity.

This course meets the requirements for MOC for up to 2.25 credits.

The MOC credits that physicians earn from this activity will be submitted to ACCME’s CME Passport, a free, centralized web application where you can create a personalized account to view, track, and generate transcripts of your reported ACCME credit. Visit www.cmepassport.org to create your account.

Disclosures

The content of this activity has been peer reviewed and has been approved for compliance. The faculty and contributors have indicated the following financial relationships, which have been mitigated through an established conflict-of-interest resolution process and have stated that these reported relationships will not have any impact on their ability to provide unbiased content.

Planners:

Chet A. Morrison, MD, FACS, FCCM

Washington Health Systems

Fremont, California, USA