COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™14 ACPE Credits
14.0 Contact Hours
4 Hours of Pharmacology for Nurse Practitioners
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
- How to navigate through various Hypertension Guidelines?
- Appraise various guidelines and compare the evidence to apply in own clinical practice
- How to Improve BP Control in Your Practice?
- Apply information learned through case examples to evaluate and treat hypertensive patients to achieve better control rates
- 2024 Diabetes Update
- Integrate guideline-based medical options in your practice for the management of patients with diabetes
- New Medications Update
- Assess the newly FDA approved medications and warnings to achieve better patient outcomes.
- Maximizing Outcomes by Utilizing effective Communication Skills
- Demonstrate new communication tools used when interviewing patients
- How to cope with difficult patients in a busy practice?
- Manage conversations when they become difficult.
- Demonstrate use of a communication tool to mitigate anger in oneself and others.
- Well-Being, Renewal, Balancing Work and Life (reducing burnout and enhancing joy)
- Define Burnout.
- Apply techniques to manage burnout in oneself and others
- Use of bioinformatics to improve health outcomes
- Explore the use of bioinformatics to improve health outcomes.
- Discover the value of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for population health.
- Explain Big data and how to utilize to enhance health outcomes.
- Physiology of the thyroid and thyroid disorders
- Overview of the normal synthesis and function of thyroid hormone
- Understand Graves’ Disease: what it is and how it is treated?
- Discuss the most common kinds of hypothyroidism and how it is currently treated.
- Investigate subclinical hypothyroidism and inquire if levothyroxine is overprescribed.
- Recognize the potential for postpartum thyroid disorders and why they develop.
- The "Pregnant" Pancreas: Gestational Diabetes
- Review pancreatic hormones insulin and glucagon
- Outline the pathology of type I and type II diabetes
- Describe the pathophysiology of gestational diabetes
- Discuss management and treatment for gestational diabetes
- Skeletal muscle fatigue: types and causes
- Review physiology of skeletal muscle excitation and contraction
- Outline cellular mechanisms of high-intensity skeletal muscle fatigue
- Outline cellular mechanisms of endurance fatigue
- Address some unanswered questions about the etiology of fatigue
- Protective effects of exercise on bones and muscles
- Review the physiology and cellular anatomy of bone and skeletal muscle.
- Describe osteoporosis and other common age-related bone pathologies
- Describe sarcopenia
- Outline evidence-based exercise programs that can prevent age-related loss of bone and/or muscle
- Cardiovascular disease in reverse: the role of exercise
- Review the cardiac cycle, cardiac output, and the Frank-Starling mechanism
- Distinguish pathological and physiological hypertrophy
- Understand the mechanisms behind benefits of cardiovascular exercise
- Discuss if resistance training is beneficial to cardiovascular health
- Role of exercise in mental health
- Review clinical definitions of depression and anxiety.
- Outline physiological predispositions to depression and anxiety
- Describe some effects of exercise on the brain
- Microplastics: what are they and what are they doing in our bodies?
- Describe the origin of plastics and the enormity of the plastic pollution crisis the world currently faces
- Define micro- and nanoplastics and describe the chemical makeup of them
- Outline how plastics enter the human body.
- Give an overview of the current literature on how plastics are implicated in human health.