COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™16 ACPE Credits
16.0 Contact Hours
6 Hours of Pharmacology for Nurse Practitioners
16 ADA CERP Credits
COURSE FEES
$795.00 for Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, and Dental Hygenists
$595.00 for Nurses, Students, Staff, & Others
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
- Direct Primary Care- an overview
- Define Direct Primary Care (DPC)
- Compare DPC to other medical practices
- Identify key components of DPC office
- Analyze the benefits of DPC for both the physician and the patient
- Dispensing Wholesale Medications
- Identify Resources for ordering wholesale medications
- Compare state regulation on physicians dispensing
- Analyze price differences from retail versus wholesale and brand versus generic
- Illustrate the benefits to physician and patient from dispensing from office
- Self Pay Imaging and Wholesale Laboratory Studies
- Make patient centered decisions about imaging and labs outside insurance requirements
- Consider cost when formulating work ups for symptoms
- Identify resources for self pay imaging and wholesale laboratory studies
- Analyze the differences in insurance billing versus self pay prices
- Analyze the benefits of using self pay and wholesale pricing for physicians and patients
- Opening a membership based practice
- Identify the process to opening a small business
- Identify resources in teh community for supporting you while opening small business
- Analyze key factors to a successful small business- name, location, online presence, community involvement, community education
- Illustrate a knowledge of the variety of ways a DPC can operate, look, services offered
- Analyze the benefit and harm in having an employee
- Identify the key components of a small business- license, tax, LLC, accounting, and lab registration
- Motivation Interviewing for lifestyle changes
- Define Motivational Interviewing
- Identify Lifestyle changes that positively impact health
- Identify aspects of motivation
- Illustrate a variety of questioning styles
- Mindbody Medicine- an overview
- Define Mindbody medicine
- Identify stress response
- Identify relaxation response
- Analyze the use of Mindfulness in practice
- Illustrate how community resources and healing practitioners can be used along with medical professionals in patient care
- Using Social Media to Build a Patient Community
- Identify the components of social media
- Compa the different social media platforms
- Illustrate how to engage the community
- Identify key parts of a social media and online presence
- Integrative Medicine- an overview
- Define Integrative medicine
- Analyze benefits or harms of a variety of healing modalities- yoga, massage, exercise, nutrition, psychology, OMT/Chiropractic care, supplements, music/sound therapy, nature therapy
- Depressive Disorders
- Identify specified subtypes of clinical depression, appraise the differential diagnosis as well as related risk and determine appropriate treatment options
- Bipolar Spectrum Disorders
- Cite the epidemiology and subtypes of bipolar illness, weigh distinguishing clinical features, and identify potential risks as well as benefits of effective treatments
- Anxiety & Related Disorders
- Describe the features of anxiety and trauma related disorders and evaluate the various roles of potential interventions
- ADHD in Adults
- Discuss the clinical features of ADHD in adult as well as the various psychotropic medications & formulations utilized for safe & effective treatment
- Screening & Intervention for Substance Use Disorders (SUDs)
- Utilize an integrated systematic approach to assess & intervene with regard to SUDs in primary care settings
- A Primer on Addiction Psychopharmacology for Primary Care
- Know how to effectively utilize evidence-based medication interventions for the management of SUDs & addiction
- The Opioid Crisis: Practicing with a Risk Management Mindset
- Describe factors contributing to the opioid crisis & know approaches to safe prescribing for opioids with a focus proper risk management considerations
- Managing Chronic Pain & Addiction
- Identify collaborative approaches for comprehensive pain evaluation & management in the context of substance addiction including effective non-opioid treatment options for long-term pain management