Healthcare
Nurse Practitioner
Metabolic Syndrome: Risk, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Understand metabolic syndrome with this CEU course, covering symptoms, causes, assessment, and prevention strategies for nursing and OT.
Course objectives
Describe the group of patient characteristics that make up metabolic syndrome.
Discuss the causes and risk factors of metabolic syndrome, including comorbid conditions.
Discuss how to recognize metabolic syndrome and diagnostic parameters.
Outline management strategies for the treatment of metabolic syndrome.
Explain recommended lifestyle changes for prevention of metabolic syndrome.
Course description
Metabolic syndrome CEU course on symptoms, causes, and risk factors. For nursing and occupational therapy. 1.5 ANCC/AOTA contact hours. Discuss patient assessment, diagnosis, and management. Identify prevention strategies, lifestyle changes, and complications such as diabetes and coronary artery disease.
Regulations and board approvals
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #12300.