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Addressing Risks Associated with IV Push Medication Use in Adults

Experts will address the variability of practice with IV push medication use, including unnecessary unit-based preparation and dilution and unsafe injection practices, highlighting strategies necessary for the mitigation of risk.

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Expert Perspectives in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Health-System Considerations

This activity will provide health-system pharmacists and nurses and specialty pharmacy professionals with the foundational knowledge needed to manage PAH patients. Current and emerging treatments will be discussed along with their place in therapy, dosing, and monitoring strategies.

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Interprofessional Considerations in the Management of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

This interprofessional activity will focus on the diagnosis gap, individualized treatment strategies, and patient-centered care practices for managing PAH treatments.

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Introduction to Diagnostic Stewardship

Topics will include an overview of diagnostic stewardship from a clinical laboratory perspective, including review of important diagnostics that have an impact on patient outcomes. A review of the linkages between diagnostics and enhancing antimicrobial stewardship will be provided. The speakers will identify key challenges and issues for implementing diagnostic stewardship within antimicrobial stewardship programs.

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Lessons Learned & Looking to the Future of Diagnostic Testing: The Experts Return

The panel discussion will cover ways to integrate rapid diagnostics into antimicrobial stewardship programs, how to utilize the best C. difficile testing modality in practice, and when to incorporate next generation sequencing into clinical decision making.

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Management and Trends in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

This activity will provide learners with foundational knowledge of PAH, including the role of several unique pathways.

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MS-101: Pathogenesis, Diagnostic and Clinical Course Treatment Considerations in MS (A CSPE Core Curriculum Series)

Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects an estimated 400,000 people in the U.S., with approximately 10,000 new cases reported every year. This activity provides an introduction to MS pathology, epidemiology, and symptom management to specialty pharmacists and nurses.

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MS-102: Navigating the MS Therapeutic Landscape (A CSPE Core Curriculum Series)

As a chronic and progressive neurologic disease that requires lifelong, dynamic treatment via costly, high-touch medications that also require special handling and storage, multiple sclerosis therapies are often delivered via specialty pharmacy programs. This activity provides an in-depth discussion of the various therapies used in the treatment of MS.

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MS-103: The Role of the Specialty Pharmacy Professional in Managing MS Treatment: Care Transitions, Patient Education/Adherence, and Financial Considerations (A CSPE Core Curriculum Series)

Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects an estimated 400,000 people in the U.S., with approximately 10,000 new cases reported every year. This activity discusses the transitions of care, patient adherence strategies and financial considerations in the management of MS.

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MS-104: Optimizing MS Treatment: Case Studies and Applications in Specialty Pharmacy Practice (A CSPE Core Curriculum Series)

As a chronic and progressive neurologic disease that requires lifelong, dynamic treatment via costly, high-touch medications that also require special handling and storage, multiple sclerosis therapies are often delivered via specialty pharmacy programs. This capstone activity of the MS curriculum uses case studies to allow participants to apply what was learned in modules MS-101 through MS-103.

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Nebulization in the COVID-19 Era

This activity addresses the variables to evaluate for aerosol-generating procedures, including a look at the mechanism of respiratory viral transmission, national and international definitions and discusses data related to COVID-19 and nebulization.

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Opioid Stewardship® - A Certificate Program for Healthcare Professionals

The Opioid Stewardship Certificate Program is a practice-based activity for clinicians impacted by the opioid crisis. The program emphasizes a health care team approach to foster the development of a strong knowledgebase regarding opioids, pain management, opioid use disorder and skills to impact the appropriate use of opioids in healthcare and our communities.

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Ovarian Cancer

This session will cover the mechanism of action of the PARP inhibitors and the efficacy and safety parameters of the ovarian cancer treatment options available.

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Product Quality Verification of Dietary Supplements

This activity is designed to support patient counseling efforts by examining dietary supplement regulation. Topics include the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, voluntary quality verification programs, counseling points, and the adverse event reporting process.

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Prostate Cancer

It is imperative that pharmacists are aware of the novel agents available for prostate cancer. This session will cover the mechanism of action of each of the prostate cancer therapeutics available and the efficacy and safety parameters.

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Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Individualized Treatment Strategies

This activity will provide pharmacists and nurses with an improved knowledge of PAH, including a review of pathophysiology, disease subcategories, diagnosis, treatment guidelines, approved therapies, disease progression, and disease monitoring recommendations.

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Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Meeting Critical Care Needs

This activity will focus on foundational PAH knowledge including signs and symptoms, etiology, treatment, and patient education. Opportunities for nurses to use patient-centered care approaches during transitions of care including cost management, anticipated side effects, the importance of adherence will also be discussed.

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Sexual Harassment: Awareness and Prevention in the Healthcare Workplace (Nurse/Physician/Physician Assistant)

This activity will assist in increasing awareness of what constitutes sexual harassment, the impact of harassment, what to do if you are harassed or a witness, the responsibilities of the employer, and the protections that are in place for those reporting harassment.

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Stewardship (Diagnostic and Antimicrobial) in Action: Individual Versus Data-driven Decision Making

Topics will include real-world examples of diagnostic stewardship and antimicrobial stewardship practices, the impact of diagnostic tools on antimicrobial stewardship programs, and strategies to resolve challenges and prevent silos to create interdisciplinary stewardship programs.

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Vaccine Uptake in Underserved Populations: Vaccine Hesitancy and Cultural Competency

This activity will introduce background knowledge on the clinical impact of low vaccination rates in minorities, social influences that guide individual vaccine decisions, and help to improve comfort in identifying and counseling vulnerable underserved populations.

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