COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™16 ACPE Credits
16.0 Contact Hours
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
- Litigation Stress
- Discuss the typical physical and emotional reactions
- Learn to develop support systems and utilize privileged communications.
- Discuss methods to cope with the pressure of a claim, develop a sense of perspective
- Medical Errors/Patient Safety in the Emergency Department
- Discuss patient safety and the impact on health care outcomes and finances
- Discuss practical patient safety initiatives for the ED
- Discuss crew resource behavior management, teamwork, role clarification, communication styles and tips.
- Violence in the Emergency Department
- Develop strategies to promote safety, security and dignity for all involved.
- Learn how we influence whether a crisis is prevented or escalates and how to respond properly and professionally during crisis moments
- ENT Tricks of the Trade
- Review common head and neck emergencies.
- Discuss treatment options for these emergencies.
- Describe procedures to treat head and neck complaints.
- Effective Communications and Conflict Management Skills in the Emergency Department
- Discuss the impact of an unhealthy workplace and contributors to incivility
- Discuss communication and personal development tips to improve your worksite
- Discuss how we respond and communicate under stress
- Discuss how our own behavior impacts that of our colleagues
- Generational Synergy in the ED
- Discuss the 5 generations encountered in the workplace and their characteristics.
- Describe the interactions between generations and its effect on the workplace environment.
- Bringing Your Soul to Work: Resilience in the ED
- Discuss current statistics on Discouraged Doctors, the individual and group dynamics causing workplace stress and strategies to find meaning in our work.
- Pediatric fever: management and update
- Recognize serious bacterial infections
- Describe suggested diagnostic work-up of the febrile infant based upon recognize guidelines and patient age
- Identify life-threatening causes of fever
- Syncope update: the evaluation of the patient with loss of consciousness
- List causes for syncope which may cause morbidity and mortality
- Discuss cost-effective work-up for the patient with history of loss of consciousness
- Interpret different reports and recommendations in recent literature
- Pain management options in the era of opioid anuse
- Appraise the extent of the opioid crisis
- Analyze options for treatment of pain without use of narcotics
- Examine new developments and pharmaceutical developments of analgesics
- Trauma in the pediatric patient
- Discuss the extent and nature of non-accidental trauma
- Report the extent and science of imaging in the injured child
- Critique recommendations for diagnosis and management of the concussed adolescent
- Analyze the role of anti-thrombolyics
- What is new in toxicology
- Cite substances of abuse which were not available even ten years earlier
- Describe toxidromes which may elucidate what may have caused symptoms in the poisoned patient
- Exemplify specific abused substances
- Cardiopulmonary/Resuscitation update
- Report changes in standard guidelines
- Formulate resuscitation guidelines past standard CPR and advanced cardiac life support