Building Your Dream Team: Practical Plays for Hiring, Training, and High-Performance Culture

This course equips Certified Dietary Managers, Certified Food Protection Professionals (CDM, CFPP) with practical strategies to attract, hire, train, and retain exceptional team members. This course explores how intentional leadership, onboarding, and workplace culture directly impact employee engagement, performance, and retention. Participants will gain actionable tools to build strong, motivated teams that deliver consistent, high-quality service.

January 1, 2026 to January 1, 2028

CMS F-Bombs

CMS F-Bombs will help you identify the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) Long-Term Care (LTC) regulations and survey guidance for food & nutrition services departments, manage your department's competencies for a successful survey, and describe why regulations are needed.

January 1, 2025 to January 1, 2028

Food Allergies: The Comprehensive 10-hour Course

This comprehensive course provides an overview of food allergies in the foodservice setting, including the differences between food allergies and food intolerances, common symptoms of allergic reactions, and the nine major food allergens in the United States.

January 1, 2026 to January 1, 2028

The Fred Factor Mindset - Elevating Service and Culture in Dietary Services

This course is a guided book-study and professional reflection based on The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn. It focuses on leadership, service excellence, personal accountability, communication, and relationship-building within foodservice and healthcare environments. Purchasing the book from your retailer of choice is a mandatory component of this course and not included in the fee paid to UND.

January 1, 2026 to January 1, 2028

To "B" or not to "B" - Fostering Belonging in Nutrition and Dietetics Eldercare

This course is focused on the crucial aspect of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) with a specific emphasis on "Belonging" from the resident's and staff member's perspectives. This presentation will delve into how creating a sense of belonging within the nutrition and dietetics departments can impact our resident's lives as well as our professional environments.

January 1, 2026 to January 1, 2028

Did You Know I Can Say "No" - Dining Rights

Did You Know I Can Say "No" - Dining Rights will help you identify the rights of residents, effective techniques to "soften" the "No," and explore common resident rights violations.

January 1, 2025 to January 1, 2028

Ethics as a Daily Practice

Ethics as a Daily Practice discusses your role in making everyday ethical choices, assists you in applying the Ethical Decision Making Model to objectively respond to ethical dilemmas, and identifies ethical dilemmas in your life and practice objective solutions.

January 1, 2021 to January 1, 2028

Fad Diets: Reviewing Current Fad Diets & Sorting through the Science

Fad Diets reviews current and emerging popular diet fad, evaluates fad diets against evidence-based nutrition therapy for obesity management and makes recommendations related to the claims of popular fad diets.

January 1, 2021 to January 1, 2028

Food Allergies: What Food Professionals Need to Know

Food Allergies: What Foodservice Professionals Need to Know will help you identify the symptoms of an allergic reaction, the difference between food allergies and intolerances, and the 9 common food allergies in the United States and foods that contain the top 9 food allergens.

January 1, 2025 to January 1, 2028

Food Safety Everyday Superheroes

Food Safety Everyday Superheroes will help you implement core food safety superPOWERS (post, observe, wear, educate, and record), respond by mastering the "3 Cs" (collect, contact, correct), and leveraging training techniques to build lasting habits and reinforce accountability across foodservice teams.

January 1, 2025 to January 1, 2028

Intermittent Fasting: Reviewing the Science of Intermittent Fasting: Does It Improve Outcomes with Chronic Diseases?

Intermittent Fasting (IF) explores the basic metabolic function in healthy individuals verses those who are obese or have diabetes, defines intermittent fasting and the common types, and identifies the risks and benefits for using intermittent fasting.

January 1, 2021 to January 1, 2028

It's All About the Hands!

It's All About the Hands! will help you identify the basics of safe food handling, define the hands' role in your sanitation compliance, and create a clean culinary culture in your Food & Nutrition Services Departments.

January 1, 2025 to January 1, 2028

Medical Terminology: A Short Course

Medical Terminology: A Short Course is a 10-hour CE course, providing a comprehensive introduction and overview of medical terminology that the CDM, CFPP needs to understand for clinical documentation.

July 1, 2023 to July 1, 2026

Nutrition Screening - Understanding the Role of the CDM, CFPP

Nutrition Screening - Understanding the Role of the CDM, CFPP, provides a comprehensive introduction and overview of the Nutrition Screening process that the CDM, CFPP needs to understand for clinical documentation.

January 1, 2024 to January 1, 2027

Microaggressions

This course is designed to prepare the CDM, CFPP to recognize microaggressions and intervene when they occur.

January 1, 2025 to January 1, 2028

Practitioner Training - LEAN in Management for the CDM, CFPP

Practitioner Training - LEAN in Management for the CDM, CFPP takes an in-depth look at LEAN Food & Nutrition Services LEAN Management. It covers ethical standards of management, food safety & sanitation compliance vignettes, and a deeper dive into the LEAN management through working smarter not harder, LEAN as a process, work simplification, and concepts to lead by.

January 1, 2025 to January 1, 2028

Practitioner Training in Nutrition Care for the CDM, CFPP

Do you want to take an in-depth look at Nutrition Care and earn all your CE's for your 3-year certification period to maintain your credential? This course is for you! This course covers the ethical standards for clinical documentation, food safety & sanitation compliance vignettes, and a deeper dive into the nutrition care and the power of the pen focusing on communication in charting.

January 1, 2025 to January 1, 2028

Practitioner Training in Sanitation for the CDM, CFPP

Do you want to take an in-depth look at sanitation and safety for health care and earn all your CE's for your 3-year certification period to maintain your credential? This course is for you! This course covers the ethical standards for the Dietary Manager Practitioner in Sanitation, sanitation regulation vignettes, and a deeper dive into the federal agencies and regulations that govern food safety and sanitation in healthcare, focusing on the foodservice operation.

January 1, 2025 to January 1, 2028

Product Dating

Product Dating will help you identify common food packaging date markings and how to use them to keep food safe, the use of dates in the foodservice operation, and how to decrease food waste in the commercial foodservice setting.

January 1, 2025 to January 1, 2028

Signed, Sealed, and Delivered - Now What?

Signed, Sealed, and Delivered - Now What? will help you identify processes for workflow/staff training, policies for state and federal compliance, and Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) involvement for departmental process improvement.

January 1, 2025 to January 1, 2028

Supercharging Support for the RDN Consultant Across the 5 Domains of Practice

Supercharging Support for the RDN Consultant Across the 5 Domains of Practice will help you translate RDN-directed care plans into actionable, individualized meal service while ensuring compliance with dietary guidelines and therapeutic diets in diverse care settings.

January 1, 2025 to January 1, 2028

Team Building: Keeping Your Team Happy to Reduce Turnover

Team Building focuses on resources for improving interpersonal problems within a department, identifies team roles, explores costs & benefits and new ways of showing appreciation to employees and explores options for workplace team building.

January 1, 2021 to January 1, 2028

Top 10 Foodborne Illness Outbreaks: Be Prepared

Top 10 Foodborne Illness Outbreaks defines foodborne illness including the risks and causes, lists and discusses the top 10 foodborne pathogens, and the top 10 food safety issues and how to prevent outbreaks.

January 1, 2021 to January 1, 2028