
COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™16 ACPE Credits
9 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
- Update on Hormones
- Identify and treat common patient complaints related to hormone disorders
- Discuss conventional and complementary alternative medicine therapies for hormone disorders
- Family planning, Contraception and STD's
- Recognize when contraception family planning and STD screening should be discussed
- Describe all of the current options available as well as pros and cons of these options
- Identify when STD screening is appropriate
- Upper Respiratory Complaints in Primary Care
- Identify and utilize common supplements/herbs that are proven to be helpful and or effective in common upper respiratory conditions seen in outpatient settings
- Motivating Patients to Make Lifestyle Changes
- Apply motivational interviewing skills and patient coaching in practice
- Illustrate how helping a patient change their perspective on health problems can really affect outcomes
- Common Skin Conditions
- Recognize and define common skin conditions found in a primary care office and be able to offer conventional as well as complementary alternative medicine treatment options
- Weight Loss Updates
- Identify the data on different novel diets and trends in weight loss
- Counsel patients and get them started on weight loss
- Abdominal Complaints In Primary Care
- Recognize and define the different types of causes for abdominal pain in the primary care setting
- Apply conventional alternative medical therapies when applicable.
- Digital Device Disease
- Identify and explore the current issues with device and Internet addiction and how it affects our health
- Identify and offer treatment suggestions to their patients
- Osteoporosis Update
- Identify the data on updates in osteoporosis management
- Manage patients in the office, what treatment options are available, and when to refer out
- Discuss the evidence for complementary alternative medicine therapies
- The Opioid Epidemic: How we got here, how we move forward
- Describe the Magnitude of the Opioid Epidemic
- Explain Screening & Staging Techniques
- Summarize BRIEF ( SBIRT) Effective Counseling
- Their Blood Pressure was What? Who needs what , when and where?
- Recognize the parameters of blood pressures that need emergency treatment
- Describe best practice treatment options for management of abnormal blood pressures.
- Updates in DVT & PE--ICU or Home
- Describe the use of validated criteria to measure risk of early mortality in venous thromboembolism
- Classify parameters that make a patient with thromboembolism low or high risk
- Differentiate and manage life threatening PEs vs appropriate discharge strategies
- We've Got Your Back--a common sense approach to back pain
- List examples of the many medical causes of back pain.
- Identify "red flags" for those etiologies of back pain that need emergency evaluation
- Describe emergency treatment options for common causes of back pain
- Beyond "clumsy" Recognizing and assisting victims of intimate partner violence
- Describe the magnitude of intimate partner violence
- Explain how to perform consistent and effective screening for domestic violence (DV)
- Recognize history and physical exam findings that are consistent with patterns of abuse in clinical scenarios
- List opportunities and successful methods for intervention and prevention
- Sex and Gender Medicine- What it is and why you should care
- Differentiate between the terms biological sex and gender and describe how both can impact patient emergent care
- Teamwork at the BedsideHow it Impacts Patient Safety
- Identify and describe hazards and imperfect processes at the point of care
- Define communications vulnerabilities that affect safety in healthcare
- Illustrate tools that can enhance team functioning
- Survivor: how to last in a demanding profession
- Discuss risks of our profession to well-being
- Review recommendations to improve personal health
- Describe tools/resources to help combat these risks
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.