Welcome To Nutrition Support Pharmacy

With additional tasks that we will be performing to accommodate our appointed role by BPS as we continue serving as the BCNSP CE Recertification Provider for the upcoming 7-year period, 2024-2030, along with the increase of inflation, since this is a 7-year commitment we will be increasing our annual subscription registration fee commencing on January 1, 2024.  Beginning on January 1, 2024 the price for the annual subscription will increase from $195 to $225.

ASPEN 2024 CONTENT:  We will once again provide BPS- approved CE credit for some of the sessions during the ASPEN24 Conference.  ASPEN will provide ACPE CE credit for these sessions being presented during the conference.  For anyone who participates in the conference and is interested in receiving BCNSP recertification credit for these sessions, the post-tests will be available on the BCNSP Recertification Website approximately 5-6 weeks following the conference.  An email message will be sent to notify you when the post-tests become available, so be sure to check your spam folder in case it ends up there.  In addition, we will be adding these sessions to our site as enduring programming during the summer months.  In this way, those of you that were unable to participate in the conference will still have access to these activities which will be BPS-approved and ACPE-accredited by Purdue.

To view the list of Nutrition Support Courses available on the portal click here.

Transition Plan for Recertification of Board Certified Nutrition Support Pharmacists

You can download the approved Continuing Education Transition Plan for all current Board Certified Nutrition Support Pharmacists (2009-2015) by clicking here.

The full recertification criteria from BPS can be found at this link.


News and Updates

Preoperative nutrition therapy in people undergoing gastrointestinal surgery.

The objective was to assess the effects of preoperative nutritional therapy compared to usual care in patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery.

 

Comparing Aluminum Concentrations in Adult and Pediatric Parenteral Nutrition Solutions: Multichamber-Bag versus Compounded Parenteral Nutrition.

This study compares aluminum concentrations in multichamber-bag and compounded parenteral nutrition for adults and pediatrics. A prospective study assessed aluminum concentrations in various types of multichamber-bag and compared them with compounded parenteral nutrition formulations with similar compositions.

 

Aluminum and other chemical elements in parenteral nutrition components and all-in-one admixtures.

We aimed to quantify concentrations of aluminum and other chemical elements of all-in-one parenteral nutrition admixtures for adults prepared from commercial multichamber bags and vitamin and trace element additives over a 48-h period. Secondly, we determined the level of aluminum contamination resulting from admixing and infusion set use.

 

Comparison of two formulations of intravenous lipid emulsions in pediatric intestinal failure.

Report on a retrospective chart review over one year of pediatric patients with intestinal failure who received soybean oil lipid emulsion or mixed oil lipid emulsion.

 

Pancytopenia related to acquired sea-blue histiocytosis during chronic parenteral nutrition.

Case study of a man on long-term parenteral nutrition with extensive short-bowel intestinal resection, referred for investigation of pancytopenia.