Providing Quality Care for Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
This activity will provide learners with an overview of clinical considerations in adults with IDD and improve communication skills and practices that can better guide treatment choices to address the specific needs of these individuals. Learners will take a closer look at existing bias, stigma and discrimination toward these individuals and learn strategies to address these issues in practice. Lastly, the value of improved interprofessional team collaboration between health care professionals (HCPs), caregivers and direct support professionals will be discussed.
Category
  • Intellectual and developmental disabilities
Format
  • Webcasts
Credits
  • 2.00 ACPE - Pharmacists
  • 2.00 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
  • 2.00 AMA - Physicians
  • 2.00 ANCC - Nurses
  • 2.00 APA - Psychologists
  • 2.00 Attendance - General Attendance
  • 2.00 CCMC - General - Case Managers
  • 2.00 CDR - Dietitians
  • 2.00 COPE - Optometrists
  • 2.00 ASWB - Social Workers
Perinatal Substance Use Disorder: Focus on Postpartum Period
Identification and early intervention for pregnant and postpartum women with substance-use disorders (SUD) are critical for optimizing maternal and neonatal health and wellbeing. The risk factors, common barriers to treatment, evidence-based practices around screening and interventions, and the framework for collaborative strategies to support pregnant and postpartum women with SUD will be discussed.
Category
  • Behavioral health
Format
  • Webcasts
Credits
  • 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacists
  • 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
  • 1.00 AMA - Physicians
  • 1.00 ANCC - Nurses
  • 1.00 APA - Psychologists
  • 1.00 Attendance - General Attendance
  • 1.00 ASWB - Social Workers
Finding Your Joy in Practice Again
This activity will help HCPs and leaders learn the signs to look for, how to communicate about such feelings and how to develop organizational and individual strategies to find joy in practice once again.
Category
  • Behavioral health
  • Wellness
Format
  • Webcasts
Credits
  • 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacists
  • 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
  • 1.00 AMA - Physicians
  • 1.00 ANCC - Nurses
  • 1.00 APA - Psychologists
  • 1.00 Attendance - General Attendance
  • 1.00 ASWB - Social Workers
What Is Trauma-Informed Care and Why Is it Critical in Health Care Today?
This panel discussion will identify ways in which HCPs can incorporate the principles of trauma-informed care into their practice. The ACE study and the connection between adverse childhood experiences and trauma will be reviewed. Methods in which health care professionals (HCPs) can interact with individuals while expressing understanding and empathy in trauma-informed ways to promote healing and reduce the risk of retraumatization will also be discussed.
Category
  • Behavioral health
Format
  • Webcasts
Credits
  • 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacists
  • 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
  • 1.00 AMA - Physicians
  • 1.00 ANCC - Nurses
  • 1.00 APA - Psychologists
  • 1.00 Attendance - General Attendance
Selecting Appropriate Treatments Based on Geriatric and Fragility Assessments
This activity will provide an overview of geriatric and frailty assessment tools that can assist in guiding cancer- and transplant-related decision making through the risk stratification of older individuals before therapy is initiated. Data surrounding the relationship among increased age, geriatric- and frailty-assessment results, and disease outcomes will also be explored. Key considerations in how to best incorporate these sometimes time-intensive assessments into practice will be outlined, along with discussion of how interprofessional collaboration among members of the health care team in the creation of care plans can facilitate quality care.
Category
  • Disease management
  • Older adults
  • Oncology
  • Transplantation
Format
  • Webcasts
Credits
  • 0.75 ACPE - Pharmacists
  • 0.75 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
  • 0.75 AMA - Physicians
  • 0.75 ANCC - Nurses
  • 0.75 APA - Psychologists
  • 0.75 Attendance - General Attendance
  • 0.75 CCMC - General - Case Managers
  • 0.75 CDR - Dietitians
  • 0.75 ASWB - Social Workers
Integrating Care Teams in a Virtual World
This activity will examine how the multiple aspects of digital health can be best utilized by health care team members to ensure continuity of the patient’s health care journey, meet care plan goals, improve patient outcomes and optimize team communication practices. The ability of virtual health care practices to enable team members to fulfill their roles in clinical decision-making and care plan implementation will be discussed. Important legal, regulatory and reimbursement considerations that pertain to digital practice integration within the health care team will be highlighted.
Category
  • Digital health
Format
  • Webcasts
Credits
  • 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacists
  • 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
  • 1.00 AMA - Physicians
  • 1.00 ANCC - Nurses
  • 1.00 APA - Psychologists
  • 1.00 Attendance - General Attendance
  • 1.00 ASWB - Social Workers
Systemic Mastocytosis: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Updates
Woman in green top with glasses and grey hair showing her irration/rash on her arm to her health care professional. Health care professional is woman wearing a white lab coat.
This activity will review the symptoms and signs of SM, provide an overview of new and current therapies and identify SM guideline updates. The value of an interdisciplinary team–based approach along the continuum of care for affected individuals will also be discussed as a definitive step toward optimizing outcomes. 
Category
  • Disease management
  • Rare diseases
Format
  • Webcasts
Credits
  • 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacists
  • 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
  • 1.00 AMA - Physicians
  • 1.00 ANCC - Nurses
  • 1.00 Attendance - General Attendance
  • 1.00 CCMC - General - Case Managers
  • 1.00 CDR - Dietitians
Monkeypox Explained: Symptoms, Transmissibility and Prevention
This activity will provide participants with the latest science on monkeypox, describing the spectrum of associated symptoms and signs, virulence, and common routes of transmission. Discussion will also focus on the factors driving this outbreak, approaches to prevention and management, and an overview of the impact of this disease globally and in comparison with the current COVID-19 public health emergency.
Category
  • Infectious diseases
Format
  • Webcasts
Credits
  • 0.50 ACPE - Pharmacists
  • 0.50 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
  • 0.50 AMA - Physicians
  • 0.50 ANCC - Nurses
  • 0.50 APA - Psychologists
  • 0.50 Attendance - General Attendance
  • 0.50 ASWB - Social Workers
Preventing Falls in Older Adults: Risk Factors and Interventions
This activity will discuss The Strategies to Reduce Injuries and Develop Confidence in Elders (STRIDE) trial, which aims to evaluate the effectiveness of evidence-based strategies to reduce serious fall-related injuries,. In addition, faculty will identify risk factors that contribute to falls in the older adult as well as for individuals in SNFs, and provide interventions to reduce the risk of falls. The importance of a multidisciplinary approach in fall management will also be explored.
Category
  • Disease management
Format
  • Webcasts
Credits
  • 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacists
  • 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
  • 1.00 AMA - Physicians
  • 1.00 ANCC - Nurses
  • 1.00 APA - Psychologists
  • 1.00 Attendance - General Attendance
  • 1.00 ASWB - Social Workers
What’s Special about Specialty Pharmacy?
This session examines the cost of development and growth of these pharmaceuticals and details the specific role that specialty pharmacy plays in making these products accessible. The high costs of therapies and patient and medication management are also discussed along with the role and value of drug benefit programs.
Category
  • Disease management
Format
  • Webcasts
Credits
  • 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacists
  • 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
  • 1.00 AMA - Physicians
  • 1.00 ANCC - Nurses
  • 1.00 APA - Psychologists
  • 1.00 Attendance - General Attendance
  • 1.00 CCMC - General - Case Managers
  • 1.00 CDR - Dietitians
  • 1.00 ASWB - Social Workers

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