
COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™16 ANCC Contact Hours
4 Pharmacology Hours for NPs
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM TOPICS
- The Opioid Epidemic: How we got here, how we move forward
- Describe the Magnitude of the Opioid Epidemic
- Explain Screening & Staging Techniques
- Summarize BRIEF ( SBIRT) Effective Counseling
- Their Blood Pressure was What? Who needs what , when and where?
- Recognize the parameters of blood pressures that need emergency treatment
- Describe best practice treatment options for management of abnormal blood pressures
- Updates in DVT & PE--ICU or Home
- Describe the use of validated criteria to measure risk of early mortality in venous thromboembolism
- Classify parameters that make a patient with thromboembolism low or high risk
- Differentiate and manage life threatening PEs vs appropriate discharge strategies
- We“ve Got Your Back--a common sense approach to back pain
- List examples of the many medical causes of back pain
- Identify “red flags“ for those etiologies of back pain that need emergency evaluation. Describe emergency treatment options for common causes of back pain
- Beyond “clumsy“, Recognizing and assisting victims of intimate partner violence
- Describe the magnitude of intimate partner violence
- Explain how to perform consistent and effective screening for domestic violence (DV)
- Recognize history and physical exam findings that are consistent with patterns of abuse in clinical scenarios
- List opportunities and successful methods for intervention and prevention
- Sex and Gender Medicine- What it is and why you should care
- Differentiate between the terms biological sex and gender and describe how both can impact patient emergent care
- Teamwork at the Bedside: How it Impacts Patient Safety
- Identify and describe hazards and imperfect processes at the point of care
- Define communications vulnerabilities that affect safety in healthcare
- Illustrate tools that can enhance team functioning
- Survivor: how to last in a demanding profession
- Discuss risks of our profession to well-being
- Review recommendations to improve personal health
- Describe tools/resources to help combat these risks
- Is it a Joint? Clinical Approach to a Rheumatologic Patient
- Participants will be able to assess a joint vs soft tissue complaint through indepth look at the physical exam
- Back Pain- Is it inflammatory?
- Diagnose inflammatory back pain vs mechanical pain
- Gout
- Be confident in their diagnosis and be able to apply the management options and how to best utilize what is available
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Diagnose a rheumatoid patient, and manage long term health risk that are associated with the disease
- Lupus
- Recognize the disease, environmental effects on the patient as well as treatments used
- Osteoporosis
- Discover more about osteoporosis, the patients and when and how to treat these patients
- Medication Monitoring
- Examine the risks and side effects of frequently used medicines in rheumatology
- The Pregnant Patient
- Monitor and identify patients at high risk pregnancy as well as risk for poor outcomes















































