Tools and Resources to Support Health Professionals:

• PCNA Clinical Tools: Enhance your practice and improve patient outcomes by using PCNA clinical tools. Here you will find ordering information and/or downloading instructions for the following:
  
  
• Nourishing Healthy Hearts: An interactive educational program designed to support nurses and nurse practitioners in their vital role as patient counselors on a heart-healthy lifestyle. The goal of this online continuing education (CE) program is to arm nurses with the tools they need to feel comfortable counseling patients with hyperlipidemia, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular disease.
  
  
• AHA Patient Information Sheet: This information sheet provides your patients with charts to help set eating plan goals and track physical activity.
  
  
• BMI Assessment Tools: Body Mass Index (BMI) is a number calculated from a person's weight and height. BMI provides a reliable indicator of body fatness for most people and is used to screen for weight categories that may lead to health problems.
  
  
• American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Tools to help health care professionals in effectively addressing obesity prevention, assessment and treatment at the point of care.

Heart Healthy Resources

• National Heart Lung and Blood Institute: General information about heart and vascular disease
  
  
• Heart Truth Campaign: The National Institutes of Health landmark heart health awareness movement aimed at women
  
  
• Tell A Friend About Women and Heart Disease: A PCNA campaign to encourage women to engage their healthcare providers in a dialogue about heart health and share what they learn about heart disease with their daughters, sisters, mothers, friends and co-workers
  
  
• American Heart Association (AHA): Resources for heart-healthy living
  
  
• Small Steps: Learn about eating better and living a healthier lifestyle – one step at a time.
  
  
• President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports: Learn how to stay active and fit for life
  
  
• Robert Wood Johnson Childhood Obesity Initiative: Information on reversing the childhood obesity epidemic by improving access to affordable healthy foods and increasing opportunities for physical activity in schools and communities across the nation.
  
  
• AHA's Heart Profilers Treatment Decision Tools: An online heart disease education program to educate patients with heart disease on treatment options
  
  
• American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Information for families on what you can do at home and in partnership with their pediatrician and/or community to live a healthy active life
  
  
• Action For Healthy Kids: Dedicated to addressing the epidemic of overweight, undernourished and sedentary youth by focusing on changes in schools.
  
  
• AHA Childhood Obesity Resources: A clearinghouse of information related to reducing childhood obesity
  
  
• The Healthy Fridge: Resources and tips to "Open the Door to a Healthy Heart!"