COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
21 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™21 ACPE Credits
21.0 Contact Hours
8 Hours of Pharmacology for Nurse Practitioners
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Recognize the classical signs and symptoms and to understand the treatments' goals
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Recognize the classical signs and symptoms and to understand the treatments' goals
- Spondyloarthropathies
- Recognize the classical signs and symptoms and to understand the treatments' goals
- Crystal Induced Arthritis
- Recognize the classical signs and symptoms and to understand the treatments' goals
- Osteoarthritis
- Recognize the classical signs and symptoms and to understand the treatments' goals
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Recognize the classical signs and symptoms and to understand the treatments' goals
- Fibromyalgia
- Recognize the classical signs and symptoms and to understand the complexity of chronic pain conditions and of particular neuropathic and neuroplastic pain
- Nutrition, Metabolism and Weight Management for Optimizing Heart Health
- Understand the metabolic principles of healthy diets
- Describe the evidence supporting the Mediterranean Diet for cardiovascular benefit
- Appreciate the cardiovascular effects of medical weight loss agents
- Don't Neglect the Impact of Emotions and Stress on Heart Health
- Know the neurohormonal and physiologic basis of stress and adverse cardiovascular effects
- Become familiar with stress-related cardiovascular syndromes
- Counsel patients on basic techniques to manage stress to achieve a health benefit
- Healthy Aging and Longevity
- Understand the Blue Zone principles of longevity
- Appreciate the physiologic basis of aging
- Apply their clinical knowledge when recommending molecules and medications to promote longevity
- Evaluation of Chest Pain on the Front Lines
- Develop a differential diagnosis of acute chest pain
- Know how to use the Heart Score index in the algorithm for assessment of cardiac chest pain.
- Hyperlipidemia Evaluation and Management Update
- Understand the biology of common clinical lipid disorders
- Become familiar with current clinical guidelines for the management of hyperlipidemia
- Recognize the indications for applying novel therapies for treating lipid disorders
- Cardiac Risk Assessment and Use of Risk Calculators
- Understand the features of common cardiovascular risk calculators
- Apply cardiovascular risk calculators in clinical practice
- Unique Issues in Womens Heart Health
- Appreciate the misconceptions and misperceptions of womens heart health
- Diagnosis and manage common cardiovascular conditions unique to women
- Optimal Medical Therapy for the Management of Stable Coronary Heart Disease
- Know the definition of stable coronary heart disease
- Apply optimal medical therapy to treat coronary heart disease
- Appreciate the evidence in support for medical management of coronary heart disease
- Heart Failure Guidelines Update
- Classify and define various forms of heart failure
- Apply clinical and imaging criteria to diagnose heart failure
- Apply current management guidelines in the treatment for heart failure
- Atrial Fibrillation Guidelines Update
- Understand the indications for anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation
- Apply medical therapy for management of atrial fibrillation
- Become familiar with indications for interventional therapies to manage atrial fibrillation