COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™16 ACPE Credits
16.0 Contact Hours
9 Hours of Pharmacology for Nurse Practitioners
COURSE FEES
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 and Contraception
- Recognize when contraception family planning should be discussed
- Describe all of the current options available as well as pros and cons of these options
- Pediatric Upper Respiratory Complaints in Family Medicine
- 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.
- Diabetes Mellitus 2 Management Updates
- Discuss the long and short term impart of DM2 on morbidity and mortality
- Identify which interventions can result in change of disease status
- Know how to manage DM2 with lifestyle and all available pharmaceutical options.
- 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 Bedside—How 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