COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™16 ACPE Credits
16.0 Contact Hours
6 Hours of Pharmacology for Nurse Practitioners
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
- Managing Pain can be Painless: Pain Management without Opioids
- Identify non-narcotic medications to use for pain management
- Updates on Pediatric fever in the ED
- Evaluate the use of ancillary tests in pediatric fever
- Bronchiolitis: what do I do?
- Discuss current management in patients with Bronchiolitis
- Magnify your XR vision:
Apply tips to improve their ability to interpret radiographs in the emergency department - Can you do two things at once? Managing a busy ED while teaching others
- Describe and discuss common clinical teaching techniques
- Beyond the Feedback Sandwich - How to give feedback in an effective way
- Describe and discuss common feedback techniques
- Foreign body ingestion
- List different types of foreign body ingestions
- Discuss management of foreign body ingestions
- Foreign body Aspiration
- List different types of foreign body Aspiration
- Discuss management of foreign body Aspiration
- Health Promotion: Encouraging a Healthy Body, Mind, and Spirit
- Assess the patient's current state of physical, psychological, and spiritual health.
- Treatment of Migraine, Tension-Type, and Cluster Headaches
- Effectively treat patients with migraine headache using non-pharmacologic means, abortive medications, and preventive medications.
- Consider that tension-type and cluster headaches are discrete sub- types of headache, each of which requires a specific diagnostic approach
- Diagnosing and Managing Depression: Overcoming the Blues
- Sustain initial treatment for depression for six months after remission of symptoms to lower risk of relapse
- Recognize that depression is a common, but often misdiagnosed illness, which can be treated effectively by primary care physicians using medical therapy, psychotherapy, and adjunctive treatment
- Utilize the following adjunctive treatments where appropriate:
- Patient education (bibliotherapy)
- Diet (limit sugar, simple CHOs, caffeine)
- Exercise (150 min/week)
- Behavioral activation (pleasant activities)
- Light (10,000 lux for 30 min daily)
- Support (iatrotherapy)
- Spirituality
- Get Me Out of Here!: Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia in Primary Care
- Elicit and assess symptoms of panic disorder and agoraphobia
- Apply appropriate lifestyle modification and stress management skills, including muscle relaxation, breathing control, thought-stopping, and cognitive restructuring
- Somatoform Disorders: Illness as a Way of Life
- Recognize the key symptoms, signs, and clinical presentation of somatizing patients.
- Communication: Becoming a Healer
- Consider the clinician's role from the personal and psychosocial aspects of care their clinicians
- The Faith Factor: Practicing Spiritually- Sensitive Care
- Elicit a spiritual history in an ethically-appropriate manner. Spiritually-sensitive care enhances the clinician-patient relationship and may positively influence health care outcomes.