	The California Society for Cardiac Rehabilitation is dedicated to promoting health and wellness and preventing cardiovascular diseases through the dissemination of education for the benefit of health care professionals, clinical practice and the public at large.

HOME- your starting point COMING EVENTS- The Annual Meeting, regional meetings and other relevant orginizations' offerings. EDUCATION-On line CEUs, book reviews, links to health literacy sites and more... ELIGIBILITY-Guideline for eligibility. FORMS-Membership and Resource Manual forms. INFORMATION-The CSCR Newsletters, links to helpful info, and more. JOBS-Want Ads. LEGISLATION-Keeping current with what impacts our practice LINKS-To other relevant websites OFFICERS-State, Nor-Cal and So-Cal OUTCOMES-It drives our practice. PROGRAM DIRECTORY-With a map. RISK MANAGEMENT - Links to resources SEARCH TIPS-How to. WOMEN'S HEALTH-Links to resources	CSCR Education and Research Center Below find out about HealthLiteracy. There are links to web sites with information on this important topic.Get CEUs on line Click here Check out the list of recommended reading. click here Carol Ghylin BSN, RN, BC is the CSCR Education/Research Chairperson She can be reached at: caghylin_at_comcast_dot_net Health Literacy An important concept in patient education is being promoted by government and private agencies. The concept is Health Literacy. Issues such as noncompliance and missed appointments, may be due to a patient's inability to understand. If written instructions are given but are beyond the patient's reading ability, then those instruction are not worth the paper they are printed on. This is a link to the National Library of Medicine web page Health Literacy http://www.nlm.nih.gov/archive//20061214/pubs/cbm/hliteracy.html Join with health literacy advocates around the world as, together, we promote the importance of understandable health information. http://www.healthliteracymonth.com/ From the AMA. http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/8115.html From Pfizer http://www.pfizerhealthliteracy.com/ From Canada http://www.nlhp.cpha.ca/ Go to your favorite search engine and type "health literacy". There is important information out there. On line Continuing education units TOP You can do CEU's on line now. The Winter 2003 CSCR Newsletter contained the CEU article Rehabilitation for Peripheral Arterial Disease- A job for Cardiac Rehab? PAD doesn't kill anyone, does it? by Cathy Luginbill, RN, MS, CNS. To read the article and take the test. CLICK HERE. The Spring 2004 CSCR Newsletter contained the CEU article Heart Failure, Overview and Exercise, by Cathy Luginbill, RN, MS, CNS. To read the article and take the test CLICK HERE. The Summer 2004 CSCR Newsletter contained the CEU article Weight Loss Strategies: What Our Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients Need to Know by Glen Porter, Ph.D., EP and Carol Ghylin, RN, CES. To read the article and take the test CLICK HERE. Recommended Reading TOP The following books are recommended reading. Patient Education A Practical Approach by Kate Lorig and Associates. This book provides the health professional with a practical, step-by-step description of the process of conceptualizing, designing, implementing, and evaluating a successful patient education program. Available from the publisher, SAGE Publications: SAGE Publications, Inc. PO Box 5084 • Thousand Oaks CA 91359-9924 USA Phone: (805) 499-0721 • FAX: (805) 499-0871 Kate Lorig is part of the Patient Education Research Center at Stanford University. Click on the following, if you would like to visit their web site. http://patienteducation.stanford.edu/index.html TOP I read The Diabetic Athlete by Sheri Colberg to see what was applicable to the Cardiac Rehab exercisers. I gained an understanding of the energy systems our bodies use to fuel exercise. There is good information on how exercise influences blood sugar levels leading to better control. So many of our Cardiac Rehab participants are Diabetic it is important to know this information. The Diabetic Athlete By Sheri Colberg. Table of contents Part I: The Diabetic Athlete’s Toolbox Chapter 1. Training for Sports and Fitness Chapter 2. Balancing Exercise Blood Sugars Chapter 3. The Ups and Downs of Insulin Chapter 4. Supplements and Eating for Exercise Chapter 5. Guidelines for Type 1 Diabetes Chapter 6. Guidelines for Type 2 Diabetes Part II: Sports and Fitness Activities Chapter 7. Endurance Sports Chapter 8. Power Sports Chapter 9. Fitness Activities Chapter 10. Recreational Sports Appendix A Diabetic Athletes and Sport Organizations Appendix B Sport Nutrition Web Sites of Interest Appendix C Diabetic Athletes Activity Questionnaire The Diabetic Athlete is published by HumanKinetics Their web address is HumanKinetics.com.Look at diabetes-related web sites, including the American Diabetes Association. www.diabetes.org TOP Ultimate Fitness by Gina Kolata Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth About Exercise and Health is Gina Kolata’s compelling journey into the world of American physical fitness over the past thirty years. It is a funny, eye-opening, brow-sweating investigation into the fads, fictions, and science of fitness training. Ultimate Fitness spotlights the machines and machinations of the fitness industry, and cuts through the marketing and hype not only to assess what is healthy, but also to understand what our obsession with staying healthy says about American culture today. Check your bookstores or search online. There are sites with reviews and sites where you can buy. TOP Heart Attack! Advice for Patients by Patients The Cardiac Therapy Foundation of Palo Alto, one of the oldest and best known community based cardiac rehabilitation programs nationwide, recently published "Heart Attack! Advice for Patients by Patients." This book combines health education about cardiovascular disease prevention and rehabilitation along with ten personal stories highlighting the importance of cardiovascular disease risk reduction, medical management, self care and rehabilitation. It is one of the first books about dealing with heart disease that comes from the patients perspective. The book has sold out in it's first printing and has received very good reviews. Go to the Cardiac Therapy web site for more information and how to contact them. http://cardiactherapy.org/OurStories.htm . TOP Intuitive Eating, A Revolutionary Program that Works by Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D. and Elyse Resch, M.S., R.D., F.A.D.A. Are you sick and tired of dieting? Or do you need more "ammunition" to give to your patients on getting rid of diets and how to have a healthy eating mentality? If you or your patients are ready to give up dieting forever, this is the book to read. "Intuitive Eating" is a program that focuses on nurturing your body rather than starving it, encourages natural weight loss over time, and helps you to find the weight that you were meant to be. This book tackles the difficult subject of behavior modification and our eating habits. Most of us know "what we should eat," but identifying and changing our behaviors is a different ball game. We all want the "quick fix" for weight loss, (even though we know it doesn't exist), but usually the changes we need to make are not with the actual food we put in our mouth, it's with the "why" we're putting things in our mouth. This is a realistic, long-term philosophy designed to help you learn how to reject the diet mentality forever, learn how our "eating personalities" define our eating difficulties, and teaches us how to honor hunger and feel fullness. The ten principles covered are valuable for both clinicians and patients. Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D. is an award-winning registered dietitian who specializes in eating disorders. She has a nutrition counseling practice in Irvine, CA. She has written the million-copy bestseller, Healthy Homestyle Cooking as well as six other books. She is the nutritionist for Lifetime TV.com and was a national spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association for six years. Elyse Resch, M.S., R.D., F.A.D.A. has been a nutrition therapist for more than twenty years with a private practice in Beverly Hills, CA. She specializes in eating disorders, Intuitive Eating, preventative nutrition, and is a certified child and adolescent obesity expert. She is on the advisory board of "Healthy Dining" publications, and is a fellow of the American Dietetic Association.

The California Society for Cardiac Rehabilitation is dedicated to
promoting health and wellness and preventing cardiovascular
diseases through the dissemination of education for the benefit of
health care professionals, clinical practice and the public at large.

HOME- your starting point

COMING EVENTS- The Annual Meeting, regional meetings and other relevant orginizations' offerings.

EDUCATION-On line CEUs, book reviews, links to health literacy sites and more...

ELIGIBILITY-Guideline for eligibility.

FORMS-Membership and Resource Manual forms.

INFORMATION-The CSCR Newsletters, links to helpful info, and more.

JOBS-Want Ads.

LEGISLATION-Keeping current with what impacts our practice

LINKS-To other relevant websites

OFFICERS-State, Nor-Cal and So-Cal

OUTCOMES-It drives our practice.

PROGRAM DIRECTORY-With a map.

RISK MANAGEMENT - Links to resources

SEARCH TIPS-How to.

WOMEN'S HEALTH-Links to resources

CSCR Education and Research Center

Below find out about HealthLiteracy.

There are links to web sites with information on this important topic.Get CEUs on line Click here

Check out the list of recommended reading. click here

Carol Ghylin BSN, RN, BC is the CSCR Education/Research Chairperson
She can be reached at: caghylin_at_comcast_dot_net

Health Literacy

An important concept in patient education is being promoted by government and private agencies. The concept is Health Literacy. Issues such as noncompliance and missed appointments, may be due to a patient's inability to understand. If written instructions are given but are beyond the patient's reading ability, then those instruction are not worth the paper they are printed on.

This is a link to the National Library of Medicine web page Health Literacy
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/archive//20061214/pubs/cbm/hliteracy.html

Join with health literacy advocates around the world as, together, we promote the importance of understandable health information. http://www.healthliteracymonth.com/

From the AMA. http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/8115.html

From Pfizer http://www.pfizerhealthliteracy.com/

From Canada http://www.nlhp.cpha.ca/

Go to your favorite search engine and type "health literacy". There is important information out there.

On line Continuing education units TOP

You can do CEU's on line now. The Winter 2003 CSCR Newsletter contained the CEU article Rehabilitation for Peripheral Arterial Disease- A job for Cardiac Rehab? PAD doesn't kill anyone, does it? by Cathy Luginbill, RN, MS, CNS. To read the article and take the test. CLICK HERE.

The Spring 2004 CSCR Newsletter contained the CEU article Heart Failure, Overview and Exercise, by Cathy Luginbill, RN, MS, CNS. To read the article and take the test CLICK HERE.

The Summer 2004 CSCR Newsletter contained the CEU article Weight Loss Strategies: What Our Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients Need to Know by Glen Porter, Ph.D., EP and Carol Ghylin, RN, CES. To read the article and take the test CLICK HERE.

Recommended Reading TOP

The following books are recommended reading.

Patient Education A Practical Approach by Kate Lorig and Associates.

This book provides the health professional with a practical, step-by-step description of the process of conceptualizing, designing, implementing, and evaluating a successful patient education program.
Available from the publisher, SAGE Publications:
SAGE Publications, Inc.
PO Box 5084 • Thousand Oaks CA 91359-9924 USA
Phone: (805) 499-0721 • FAX: (805) 499-0871

Kate Lorig is part of the Patient Education Research Center at Stanford University. Click on the following, if you would like to visit their web site. http://patienteducation.stanford.edu/index.html

TOP

I read The Diabetic Athlete by Sheri Colberg to see what was applicable to the Cardiac Rehab exercisers. I gained an understanding of the energy systems our bodies use to fuel exercise. There is good information on how exercise influences blood sugar levels leading to better control. So many of our Cardiac Rehab participants are Diabetic it is important to know this information.

The Diabetic Athlete By Sheri Colberg.

Table of contents

Part I: The Diabetic Athlete’s Toolbox
Chapter 1. Training for Sports and Fitness
Chapter 2. Balancing Exercise Blood Sugars
Chapter 3. The Ups and Downs of Insulin
Chapter 4. Supplements and Eating for Exercise
Chapter 5. Guidelines for Type 1 Diabetes
Chapter 6. Guidelines for Type 2 Diabetes

Part II: Sports and Fitness Activities
Chapter 7. Endurance Sports
Chapter 8. Power Sports
Chapter 9. Fitness Activities
Chapter 10. Recreational Sports

Appendix A Diabetic Athletes and Sport Organizations
Appendix B Sport Nutrition Web Sites of Interest
Appendix C Diabetic Athletes Activity Questionnaire

The Diabetic Athlete is published by HumanKinetics Their web address is HumanKinetics.com.Look at diabetes-related web sites, including the American Diabetes Association. www.diabetes.org

TOP

Ultimate Fitness by Gina Kolata

Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth About Exercise and Health is Gina Kolata’s compelling journey into the world of American physical fitness over the past thirty years. It is a funny, eye-opening, brow-sweating investigation into the fads, fictions, and science of fitness training.
Ultimate Fitness spotlights the machines and machinations of the fitness industry, and cuts through the marketing and hype not only to assess what is healthy, but also to understand what our obsession with staying healthy says about American culture today.

Check your bookstores or search online. There are sites with reviews and sites where you can buy.

TOP

Heart Attack! Advice for Patients by Patients

The Cardiac Therapy Foundation of Palo Alto, one of the oldest and best known community based cardiac rehabilitation programs nationwide, recently published "Heart Attack! Advice for Patients by Patients." This book combines health education about cardiovascular disease prevention and rehabilitation along with ten personal stories highlighting the importance of cardiovascular disease risk reduction, medical management, self care and rehabilitation. It is one of the first books about dealing with heart disease that comes from the patients perspective. The book has sold out in it's first printing and has received very good reviews. Go to the Cardiac Therapy web site for more information and how to contact them.
http://cardiactherapy.org/OurStories.htm .

TOP

Intuitive Eating, A Revolutionary Program that Works by Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D. and
Elyse Resch, M.S., R.D., F.A.D.A.

Are you sick and tired of dieting? Or do you need more "ammunition" to give to your patients on getting rid of diets and how to have a healthy eating mentality? If you or your patients are ready to give up dieting forever, this is the book to read. "Intuitive Eating" is a program that focuses on nurturing your body rather than starving it, encourages natural weight loss over time, and helps you to find the weight that you were meant to be. This book tackles the difficult subject of behavior modification and our eating habits. Most of us know "what we should eat," but identifying and changing our behaviors is a different ball game. We all want the "quick fix" for weight loss, (even though we know it doesn't exist), but usually the changes we need to make are not with the actual food we put in our mouth, it's with the "why" we're putting things in our mouth. This is a realistic, long-term philosophy designed to help you learn how to reject the diet mentality forever, learn how our "eating personalities" define our eating difficulties, and teaches us how to honor hunger and feel fullness. The ten principles covered are valuable for both clinicians and patients.

Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D. is an award-winning registered dietitian who specializes in eating disorders. She has a nutrition counseling practice in Irvine, CA. She has written the million-copy bestseller, Healthy Homestyle Cooking as well as six other books. She is the nutritionist for Lifetime TV.com and was a national spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association for six years.

Elyse Resch, M.S., R.D., F.A.D.A. has been a nutrition therapist for more than twenty years with a private practice in Beverly Hills, CA. She specializes in eating disorders, Intuitive Eating, preventative nutrition, and is a certified child and adolescent obesity expert. She is on the advisory board of "Healthy Dining" publications, and is a fellow of the American Dietetic Association.