COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™16 ACPE Credits
16.0 Contact Hours
4 Hours of Pharmacology for Nurse Practitioners
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
- The Quiet Code: ECC in 2024
- Review how the pathophysiology during cardiac arrest drives care
- Recognize which therapies help, which cause harm, and new areas in which we can make a difference
- The Pharyngitis Fallacy
- Discuss and respect how changes in pathogenicity translate to changing diagnostic goals
- Weigh the benefit and risk of treating true bacterial pharyngitis with antibiotics
- A Practical Approach to the Low-Risk Chest Pain Patient
- Navigate the different methods for working up a chest pain patient
- Identify a role for stress tests, high-sensitivity troponins, and CT coronary angiography
- Syncope Made Simple
- Using the definition of 'syncope, ' differentiate true syncope verse non, and understand which diagnoses on the differential are "can''t miss"
- Discuss and become more comfortable with risk-stratifying and disposing syncope patients
- Stroke and the Sad Saga of tPA
- Appreciate where literature intersects with politics specifically in the case of tPA
- Recognize the shift from time-based stroke care to imaging-based stroke care
- Pain Control in 2024
- Discuss the pros and cons of opiates, and arm yourself with non-opiate alternatives for managing acute painful crises
- Formulate reasonable plans for sending patients home with pain medicine
- Approach to the Headache Patient
- Formulate an organized approach to evaluating the serious verse common causes of headache
- Improve your pharmacologic toolbox to treat headache patients appropriately
- Become more comfortable knowing when to curb your full possible SAH workup
- The Search for Life in the Universe: On Being a Scientist and Lifelong Learner
- Explore what constitutes life and the possibilities of finding life elsewhere in the universe
- Describe how the appreciation and application of basic sciences affects us as learners and clinicians
- Work Life Balance in Healthcare: Does it exist?
- Help identify pain points in our lives and truly start moving towards balance
- Administrative interactions- How to deal with the C-Suite and survive
- Provide the tools needed to help interact with the administrative wing and improve your confidence in doing it
- Performance conversation- How to deal with the difficult/struggling provider and make it a win-win situation
- Provide the skillset to manage and many times improve the performance of a struggling provider
- Negotiation Tactics for life
- Help understand the purpose of negotiations and understand many of the common tactics
- Recruitment and Retention best practices
- Help create a culture of excellence and help recruit and retain the very best
- Common HR issues
- Learn how to handle common HR issue
- The Collaborative Leadership Model- Is this the best style to run you department?
- Describe the collaborative leadership model and how to implement
- Things you should know about but get little exposure to
- Help improve our understanding of IT, legal and business issues