COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™14 ACPE Credits
14.0 Contact Hours
3 Hours of Pharmacology for NPs
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
Topics have been chosen to benefit the family physician, general internist and Advance Practice Professionals in an ambulatory care setting.
Topics
- Healthy Lifestyles and the Obesity Epidemic
- Discuss the epidemiology of obesity
- Discuss the role of lifestyle habits in prevention and management of obesity
- Screening for Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer
- Distinguish the difference between primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.
- Enumerate the recommended screening tests for breast, colon and lung cancer and their timing.
- Describe the recommended guidelines for blood pressure screening, cholesterol screening, and diabetes screening.
- Evidence-based Exercise and Diet options for Cardiovascular Prevention
- Describe the recommended levels of exercise for adults.
- Describe the most appropriate diet for patients with diabetes or hypertension.
- The Physiologic Basis of a Healthy Diet and Exercise-a primer
- Provide at least three physiologic effects of exercise on human cells
- Describe three physiologic mechanisms for the impact of fruits and vegetables on health
- Update on Pneumonia Management
- Describe the most common causes of community-acquired pneumonia.
- Identify the latest recommended initial empiric treatment of patients with community-acquired pneumonia with or without co-existing morbidities.
- Update on COPD Management
- Describe the classification of severity of COPD according to symptoms and spirometry values.
- Identify the recommended initial treatment of patients with COPD according to severity.
- Update on Asthma Management
- Describe the classification of asthma according to symptoms and spirometry values.
- Identify the recommended initial treatment of patients with asthma for each level of severity.
- Describe the important differences between treatment options for asthma and treatment for COPD.
- Education Basics: Goals and objectives.
- Differentiate between learning goals and objectives and construct a learning objective relevant to their own clinical setting.
- Education Basics: Connecting the learner and the content.
- Review and apply the basic traits of adult learners to the content we want them to master.
- Education Basics: Designing Instruction.
- Differentiate between the ADDIE and ASSURE models, and select the best approach depending on your goals.
- Connecting Research to Practice: What is research; and what are the building blocks?
- Define research and identity three basic strategies.
- Connecting Research to Practice: Finding useful research outcomes.
- Identify processes to find useful and relevant research outcomes.
- Creating and Managing Teams: What's the Difference Between a Staff and a Team?
- Differentiate between a staff and a team and discuss strategies to transition from staff to team.
- Creating and Managing Teams: How do Teams Become Self supporting?
- Define and explore the roles of climate and culture in the clinical setting and they foster team based care.