COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™14 ANCC Contact Hours
5 ½ Hours of Pharmacology for NPs
COURSE FEES
$895.00
$695.00
$495.00
TARGET AUDIENCE
Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Nurses
PROGRAM TOPICS
The practice of medicine requires a commitment to ongoing professional development and lifelong learning. As practitioners we are constantly asked to reexamine the use of previously
embraced disease management scripts while incorporating new and novel evidence based approaches to patient care.
It most certainly is a balancing act. Through the presentation of evidence based approaches to the diagnosis and/or management of systolic congestive heart failure, dizziness, type 2 diabetes mellitus, office-based emergencies, arthropathy, disease prevention through diet, and deep venous thrombosis, we will merge the familiar and useful care pathways with what is seen as original, progressive, and effective.
Topics:
It most certainly is a balancing act. Through the presentation of evidence based approaches to the diagnosis and/or management of systolic congestive heart failure, dizziness, type 2 diabetes mellitus, office-based emergencies, arthropathy, disease prevention through diet, and deep venous thrombosis, we will merge the familiar and useful care pathways with what is seen as original, progressive, and effective.
Topics:
- Ambulatory Management of Congestive Heart Failure
- Recognize congestive heart failure exacerbations in the ambulatory setting
- Determine when parenteral diuretic use would be clinically indicated
- Recommend the appropriate type and dose of diuretic
- Determine laboratory and clinical follow up parameters
- Recognize when patients require a higher level of care
- Dizziness - the diagnostic and management conundrum
- Define and describe the clinical manifestations of dizziness
- Differentiate between central and peripheral dizziness
- Develop a treatment plan for dizziness that is evidence-based and patient centric
- Apply appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions for patients with vertigo
- Oral Hypoglycemic Medications for type 2 DM management - what is the evidence?
- Describe the different classes of oral hypoglycemic medications available for management of type 2 diabetes
- Evaluate the efficacy of these medications in preventing morbidity and mortality
- Select the most appropriate oral hypoglycemic based on individual patient parameters
- Understand and recognize the potential risks posed by each class of medications
- Office Emergencies - management without disruption
- Develop a brief training and simulation program, using the team STEPPS model (strategies and tools to enhance performance and patient safety)
- Recognize and manage early anaphylaxis in the office
- Recognize and manage acute coronary syndrome in the office
- Recognize and manage acute COPD or asthma exacerbation in the office
- Steroid Joint Injections - minimal effort and maximal benefit
- Understand the risks and benefits of cortisone joint injections
- Employ evidence based injection techniques that decrease the risk of infections
- Select the appropriate steroid, analgesic, needle, and syringe for the planned injection
- Review the correct technique of injection
- Food as a prescription
- Identify dietary modifications that decrease cardiovascular risk
- Identify dietary modifications that decrease cancer risk and mortality
- Recognize dietary choices that decrease the risk of diabetes
- Lower Extremity Deep Venous Thrombosis Diagnosis - How and Why?
- Recognize when a deep venous thrombosis diagnosis needs to be considered
- Choose the appropriate test for the diagnosis of deep venous thromboses
- Correlate the ultrasound findings to the appropriate clinical diagnosis
- Prostate Cancer Update
- Evolution of prostate cancer screening
- Evidence Based Current Guidelines
- Develop a team plan with your patient
- Exercise is "The New pill"
- Team approach to partner with multiple healthcare expertise center around the patient
- Motivational promotional results.
- Diabetes Mellitus type II selections and management
- Focus on tagets fot glycemic control
- Major classifications of Non-insulin drugs
- Reaching the HgA1c goal
- Review key components of sleep apnea and new options
- Discuss indentification of certain patient that can be treated with Inspire Therapy ( Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation).
- Update to new approaches for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Treatment strategies to pharmacologic and non pharmacologic agents.
- New information on the etiology and pathophysiology
- Lean diagnostic evaluation
- Bariatric Surgeries with their complication/management
- Identifying micronutrient deficiencies, evaluation and management
- Post Bariatric surgery hypoglycemia
- Follow Calcium, Vit D and Metabolic Bone Disease
- Challenges in Ending Life of Care
- Understanding Challenges of Prognostication in patients with End of Life
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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