COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
21 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™21 ACPE Credits
21.0 Contact Hours
21 (part II) MOC points in medical knowledge in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
8 Hours of Pharmacology for Nurse Practitioners
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
- Optimizing Results through Teamwork
- Apply the characteristics of successful teams and tools to build teamwork and improve outcomes
- Describe how teamwork can improve chronic disease metrics
- List and explain stages of team formation
- Preparing Your Patients for a Successful Transition to their Golden Years
- Improve the wellness of the elder patients seen
- Address preventive measures for elder patients
- Provide appropriate medication management for the elderly
- Improve communication strategies in discussing advance directives with patients
- Medical errors are estimated to result in 50,000 to 100,000 deaths annually in the US
- Discuss types of medical errors that can result in increased morbidity and mortality
- Minimize potential cognitive error risks to result in improved outcomes and patient safety
- Explain how diagnosis momentum can result in medical errors
- Travel Medicine: Prevention Goes International
- Discuss the scope of US travelers abroad
- Assess appropriately the medical risk to the traveler
- List commonly needed Immunizations for travelers
- Implement helpful travel preventative treatments
- Utilize travel medicine related website resources
- Optimizing Patient Safety Appropriate Opioid Prescribing
- Appropriately evaluate a patient for Chronic Pain
- Utilize general guidelines for prescribing Controlled Substances / Opioids, including the new CDC guidelines
- Implement the use of multiple modalities in managing chronic pain
- Explain the added risks when prescribing opioids in excess of 100 mg/day Morphine Milligram Equivalent (MME)
- Implement strategies to improve patient safety and compliance with guidelines in prescribing opioids and other Controlled Substances
- Is There a Doctor Onboard: In-flight Medical Emergencies
- Understand availability of emergency medical equipment on US air carriers
- Explain and prepare for the medical volunteer role on an in-flight medical emergency
- Integrate additional resources when managing an in-flight medical emergency, including ground-based medical support
- Utilize guidelines in managing in-flight medical emergencies
- Preventive Care
- Implement flu vaccine strategies
- Incorporate updated vaccinations into workflows
- Utilize updated USPSTF screening guidelines into clinical practice
- New antimicrobial agents and antimicrobial prophylaxis for prevention of infective endocarditis
- Utilize up-to-date information regarding indications and usage of new antimicrobials
- Develop a reasoned approach to considering antimicrobial prophylaxis per American Heart Association guidelines
- Confusing diagnostics in infectious diseases
- Discuss how infectious disease tests are reported
- Appropriately use and interpret some newer molecular tests for infectious diseases
- Intraabdominal infections and diverticulitis
- Describe the approach to intraabdominal infections and select appropriate antimicrobial therapy
- Infectious issues in patient receiving TNF inhibitors
- Review mechanism of action of TNF-alpha inhibitors. List infections associated with these agents
- Skin and soft tissue infections
- Recite common pathogens associated with skin infections
utilize appropriate antimicrobial therapy based on exam
- C difficile and other diarrheas
- Recite common challenging aspects of treating diarrhea in the era of C difficile infection
- Infectious risks in international travelers
- Recite commonly encountered diseases associated with international travel
- Identify necessary items to bring for international travel
- Infectious Disease image review and word association (1-1.25 hrs)
- Recall specific infectious diseases based on keywords and/or images
- Our experience with CoV2
- Understand presentations for covid 19 as well as inpatient and outpatient treatment strategies, and vaccine indications