title: Focus on nutrition: how a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Nutrition can help your practice and patients.
abstract: Diplomates of the American College of Veterinary Nutrition (ACVN) can provide clinicians with a variety of nutrition-related services that can enhance patient management and owner satisfaction. Patients with chronic or acute disease can often benefit from client or clinician consultation with an ACVN diplomate. Services offered by board-certified veterinary nutritionists include detailed diet evaluations, commercial diet counseling, weight loss program creation, guidance on nutritional management monitoring and adjustments, feeding tube placement, and parenteral and homemade diet formulation.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Sean J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Delaney
mesh_terms: D000821:Animal Feed / Q000592:standards*; D053180:Animal Nutrition Sciences / Q000193:education*; D000824:Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D002568:Certification; D003376:Counseling; D006801:Humans; D009751:Nutritional Requirements; D009752:Nutritional Status; D014730:Veterinary Medicine / Q000592:standards*