COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™14 ACPE Credits
14.0 Contact Hours
14 (part II) MOC points in medical knowledge in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
2 Hours of Pharmacology for NPs
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
It is clear that the Joint Commission expects each hospital and its medical staff to have a dispute resolution mechanism in place. However, other than for the basic elements of the process (Elements of Performance under LD.02.04.01), the JC leaves it up to each hospital to fashion their own means of compliance. Most have simply adopted policies that mimic the JC's directives, but are short on detail, essentially leaving conflict resolution to a case-by-case process.
Unfortunately, this typically results in the parties falling into their familiar routine: "lawyering up" and setting the litigation machine into motion. Similarly healthcare providers need to more effective utilize negotiation, mediation and other conflict resolution strategies to improve medical care and reduce the potential for medical malpractice litigation.
Current updates on on essential cardiology topics and current American College of Cardiology guidelines will be given. The  goal is to improve practice and patient outcomes to make sure cliicians are updated on the most recent practice patterns to include current  treatments  and provide a modern day approach to cardiology.Â
Topics:Â
- Introduction to Health Care Conflicts
- Describe different types of healthcare conflicts (ADR)
- Methods of Dispute Resolution in Healthcare
- Define Methods of Dispute Resolution in Healthcare
- Negotiation Strategies
- Explain positional negotiation and interest based negotiation
- Negotiation Strategies
- Summarize basic mediation techniques
- Mediation of Provider Patient Complaints
- Describe mediation strategies in resolving patient complaints
- Mediation of Medical Ethics Complaints
- Summarize mediation strategies to address bioethics issues
- Mediation and Negotiation Strategies to Resolve Other Conflicts
- Summarize the role of negotiation and mediation methods to resolve other healthcare issues
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Modern treatment for Afib: when to treat, rate, when to consider conversion, and the role of ablation
- CHF: modern day treatment including the role of device therapy
- Learn the difference between systolic and  diastolic CHF, when to consider implantation of a CardioMEMS device
- DVT and PE: modern day treatment
- When to consider catheter directed lysis for DVT or PE.
-   Review strategies to treat  PE.Â
- Abdominal Aneurysms and EVAR
- Learn minimally invasive technologies to treat AA in the office.
-   Learn how to screen  for AA.
- Peripheral Vascular Disease
- Identify PAD risk factors.
-   Learn  inteventional technologies to treat this  disorder.
- Pre-operative testing
- Which patients need pre-op testing.Â
-  How to lower the risk for events.
- Varicose Veins
- Treatment minimally invasive technologies including laser, phlebectomy, and to treat  varicose veins.