COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™16 ACPE Credits
16.0 Contact Hours
9 Hours of Pharmacology for Nurse Practitioners
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
- 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
- Don't Neglect the Impact of Emotions and Stress on Heart Health
- Discuss 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.
- New antimicrobial agents and antimicrobial prophylaxis for prevention of infective endocarditis
- Utilize up-to-date information regarding indications and usage of new antimicrobials
- Develop a reasoned approach to considering antimicrobial prophylaxis per American Heart Association guidelines
- Confusing diagnostics in infectious diseases
- Discuss how infectious disease tests are reported
- Appropriately use and interpret some newer molecular tests for infectious diseases
- Intraabdominal infections and diverticulitis
- Describe the approach to intraabdominal infections and select appropriate antimicrobial therapy
- Skin and soft tissue infections
- Recite common pathogens associated with skin infections
utilize appropriate antimicrobial therapy based on exam
- C difficile and other diarrheas
- Recite common challenging aspects of treating diarrhea in the era of C difficile infection
- Infectious risks in international travelers
- Recite commonly encountered diseases associated with international travel
- Identify necessary items to bring for international travel
- Infectious Disease image review and word association (1-1.25 hrs)
- Recall specific infectious diseases based on keywords and/or images
- Review of SARS-CoV2 since 2020 and update in Mpox
- Understand presentations for covid 19 as well as inpatient and outpatient treatment strategies, and vaccine indications
- Discuss the current status of Monkey Pox and vaccination/li>