8,000+ health professionals have enrolled in this award-winning course.
98% of nurses & nurse practitioners said it will change their practice.
The course recognized by the 2024 White House as part of the nationwide Challenge to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities
Who Created This Nutrition CEU Course for Nurses?
The course director is Stephen Devries, MD, a preventive cardiologist, executive director of the Gaples Institute, and Harvard faculty member and educator at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
The course has benefited from the reviews and contributions of a diverse field of experts, notably including Dr. Walter Willett from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, as well as a wide range of registered dietitian nutritionists, pediatricians, lipidologists, practicing physicians, and experts in food insecurity.
Our Online Nutrition for Nurses Course with Nutrition CEU: How It Will Help You
As a nurse, you have a unique and extraordinary capacity to impact patient health. With nutrition CEU, now you can rapidly learn the nutrition fundamentals that will guide your patient care and help your patients heal and thrive.
The nonprofit Gaples Institute’s affordable nutrition CEU course provides nurses with essential knowledge of nutrition for nurses—knowledge that you can begin applying right now. Learn about food as medicine as you deepen your professional skills in clinical nutrition—while also learning how to use healthy food as part of your own self-care.
This nursing CE course features not only practical and relevant nutrition science, but also key principles on topics such as motivational interviewing, fad diets, identifying patients with food insecurity, and more—all in an interactive, scenario-based format with downloadable key takeaways and reproducible patient handouts.
Which nursing specialties can benefit?
- Registered Nurses (RNs)
- Nurse Practitioners (NPs)
- LPNs/LVNs
- Advanced Practice Nurses
This is the same clinical nutrition course that is now required in six leading medical centers. Trust in the Gaples Institute to provide online courses for nurse practitioners, registered nurses, advanced practice nurses and LPNs/LVNs.
Expand your nutrition knowledge to help guide your patients…and yourself to better health.
What Credits Can You Earn with this Continuing Education for Nurses?
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• Nurses: 4.0 Hours ANCC Credit.
• Nurse Practitioners: 4.0 Hours AANP Credit.
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This award-winning online nutrition course for nurses is an on-demand self-paced learning program authored by Dr. Stephen Devries, a preventive cardiologist and faculty member at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Start Learning With Interactive, Engaging Nutrition CEU:
Enroll in the course
Earn 4 nursing CEUs engaged in low-cost, high-impact nutrition learning
Rapidly build your skills
Efficiently acquire nutrition knowledge that you can immediately use to improve patient care AND your self-care.
Empower your patients
Expand your ability to help patients achieve their nutrition and lifestyle goals.
Enroll in Nutrition for Nurses CEU Now
What's In this Online Nutrition Course for Nurses?
Award-winning nutrition training for nurses—developed by a trusted
educational nonprofit, vetted by national leaders in nutrition
- Why Poor Nutrition is a Health Crisis
- Clinician Self-Care and Important Ways to Maintain Resilience
- Nutrition and High-Potency Weight-Loss Drugs
- The Magnitude of Benefit Possible from a Healthy Diet
- Focus on Whole Food Diets
- Heritage Diets and Importance of Cultural Adaptations
- Evidence of How Diet Can Improve Health Conditions Including Diabetes, Heart Disease, and More
30-60 minutes- Saturated Fats: Importance of Healthful Replacement
- Polyunsaturated Fats, Including the Forms of Omega-3 and What They Do
- Cholesterol: Sources and Health Risks
- Monounsaturated Fats and Their Effect on Health and Cardiovascular Risk
- Cultural Considerations for Dietary Fat Recommendations
- Oils and High-Temperature Cooking
30-60 minutes- Carbohydrates: Chemistry and Food Sources
- Understanding Glycemic Load
- What is a Whole Grain?
- Cultural Considerations for Whole Grain Recommendations
- Fiber: A Marker of Dietary Quality
- Alcohol and Health
- Dietary Protein: Availability from a Wide Variety of Food Sources
- Sodium and Calcium: Sources and Recommended Quantities
30-60 minutesAbout Nutrition
- Food Insecurity and Your Role as a Clinician
- Popular Diets: Definitions and Scientific Status
- The 3 Skills of Motivational Interviewing
- Counseling With Cultural Sensitivity and Adaptations
- Strategies for Rapid Nutritional Counseling
- How Clinician Resilience and Self-Care Affect Patient Care
- More than 20 patient Q&A scenarios covering a wide variety of clinical examples
30-60 minutes
Impact Demonstrated in Peer-Reviewed Studies
READ THE FAMILY MEDICINE STUDY: See the innovative way Tufts Medical School uses the required Gaples Institute course in their clerkship.
READ THE EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES STUDY: See the outcomes of the Gaples Institute nutrition course in graduate medical education.
A fantastic online educational experience.
David Rakel, MD
Professor and Department Chair,
Family & Community Medicine,
University of New Mexico School of Medicine
There were so many important takeaways. All of the modules will help me provide better care for my patients.
Nurse Practitioner Feedback
Nutritional counseling that not only I could benefit from, but I could incorporate in my education to my patient to assist them with change.
Nurse Feedback
This is such essential information for healthcare providers! I hope more people access this!
Nurse Feedback
It addressed the common questions and did a great job of looking at the literature.
Nurse Practitioner Feedback
This was a great course! It was very validating to me to see the effects of dietary intake on health. I feel like I counsel every patient on weight reduction but I am renewed in my desire to help patients change their health.
Nurse Practitioner Feedback
Love the interactive learning. So glad I found the Gaples Institute!
Nurse Feedback
I learned tips to be able to help patients make small changes in their diet that could potentially have a big impact to their overall health.
Nurse Feedback
This was absolutely wonderfully put together. Thank you.
Nurse Practitioner Feedback
Useful information about different diet trends, examples of how to talk with patients when time is limited, and a review of the "basics" that is up to date and immediately relevant.
Nurse Practitioner Feedback
I loved it ! I am thrilled that my company has provided me with this learning opportunity.
Nurse Feedback
The use of evidence-based information was extremely helpful in solidifying for me the importance of talking to each and every patient about nutrition.
Nurse Practitioner Feedback
I feel more prepared to answer common questions cardiac rehab patients ask me.
Nurse Feedback
- 4 hours of engaging and practical nutrition CEU
- Quick-reference sheets of key takeaways from each module
- Reproducible, infographic-style patient education handouts
- Award-winning scenario-based learning in a richly interactive format
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Frequently Asked Questions:
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Are the nurse CEU online courses from the Gaples Institute accredited?
Yes. Credit is provided by AKH, Inc. (Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare) as described in our accreditation statement. All nurses and nurse practitioners qualify for CE credit upon completing the course and a personalized continuing education certificate is provided. Nurses earn 4.0 hours of ANCC Credit and Nurse Practitioners earn 4.0 hours of AANP Credit.
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Does this course advocate any specific diet, or any specific philosophy about nutrition and health?
The course was developed without any preconceived dietary agenda. The course is designed to present a balanced, thoroughly evidence-based summary of the best scientific studies available regarding nutrition and health. Content has been thoroughly vetted and acclaimed by nationally recognized nutrition educators and scientists, including dietitians, pediatricians, internists, cardiologists, and many more.
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Who funded the development of this nutrition course?
The course was developed entirely through philanthropy to the nonprofit Gaples Institute. The Gaples Institute neither seeks nor accepts corporate support.
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What health and nutrition studies were used in the creation of this course?
Over 130 landmark health and nutrition studies are cited, with content and references updated annually. Clickable links are provided throughout the course and learners are encouraged to explore the original literature. A PDF reference list of all cited literature is provided at the end of each module’s downloadable key takeaways.
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What makes the format of this online CEU nutrition education course unique?
Unlike typical online courses that use a video or slide-deck format, this highly interactive and engaging course is presented on a dynamic delivery platform that encourages active learning and discovery.
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What is included in my enrollment?
You’ll receive eight weeks’ access to all four interactive nutrition education modules. Each module includes a downloadable key takeaway sheet plus patient-education resources that are yours to keep.
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Can physicians and physician assistants also take this course for CME credit?
Yes. Physicians and physician assistants should visit our CME page where they can enroll in the course to earn 4.0 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.