
COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™14 ANCC Contact Hours
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM TOPICS
- From Pharmacogenomics to Personalized Medicine
- Identify new personal health care technologies and the impact they may have on patient outcomes.
- Distinguish benefits and limitations of genetic testing and use in managing medications in specific patients.
- Evaluate various gene-drug (biomarker-drug) pairs with pharmacogenomic applications.
- Critique the various resources (e.g., CPIC, PharmGKB, FDA) for pharmacogenomics drug-gene pairs.
- Understand the difference between preemptive and reactive testing of drug-gene pairs.
- Discuss the economic cost or impact considerations related to pharmacogenomic testing.
- Understand practical approaches to counseling/patient education related to pharmacogenomics.
- Optimizing Medication Adherence and Outcomes
- Create strategies to promote medications adherence among all healthcare providers
- Describe the impact of poor adherence on clinical and economic outcomes for patient and stakeholders
- Associate the necessary points within the medication use system in which technologies can be employed to reduce medical errors and enhance patient outcomes
- Comprehensive Medication Management Services
- Outline the value of leveraging the prescription benefit to reduce downstream healthcare costs and outcomes
- Critique the rationale for collaborative models of care that deliver enhanced clinical, patient and economic outcomes that involves pharmaceutical benefits
- Recognize the importance of aligning incentives in a “pay for performance” model that includes all providers
- Optimizing Immunization Delivery
- Recognize a community’s healthcare needs and desires
- Communicate with patients and caregivers regarding immunizations
- Pain Management in the Age of Diversion
- Identify the opioid crisis & multi-modal pain control to enhance improved outcomes
- Analyze pain management options & treatments of complex pain
- Optimize pain care to enhance outcomes & avoid substance abuse
- Updates in Palliative Care
- Discuss the role of Palliative Care to improve team performance & quality of life
- Improve the care with Chronically ill patients
- Sepsis Prevention Strategies
- Evaluate early interventions with Surviving Sepsis Updates
- Analyze mortality & morbidity from Sepsis
- Exploring the Relationship of Depression & Dementia
- Explore anxiety related depression, dementia & treatment options with the aging population
- Associate similarities & differences in these situations
- Improving Clinician Communication Across the Continuum
- Describe techniques to decrease the communication breakdowns between & in healthcare settings & EMR systems
- Improve Patient / Clinician Communication Across the Care Continuum
- Case Studies in Biomedical Ethics
- Analyze biomedical case studies & how to apply them in real world situations
- Identify indicators & process improvement outcomes with biomedical situations
- Compassion Fatigue & Resiliency Strategies
- Identify signs of Compassion Fatigue & develop a resiliency plan













































