COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™16 ACPE Credits
4 Hours of Pharmacology for Nurse Practitioners
16.0 Contact Hours
COURSE FEES
$995 for Physicians, Attorneys, Psychologists, Pharmacists, & Dentists$795 for Physician Assistants & Nurse Practitioners
$595 for Nurses, Students & Others
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
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Register your interest and receive a full quote at 800-422-0711 (US/Can) or direct/int'l tel: +1-727-526-1571 or register online.
Conference Sessions generally take place on days at sea (as itinerary allows), giving you plenty of time to enjoy your meals, evenings and ports of call with your companion, family and friends.