Heart failure impacts the lifestyle of patients in a variety of ways. This talk will review the recommendations that the 2022 Guidelines for the Management of Heart Failure provide for self-care, diet, exercise, cardiac rehab, and mental health. Optimal care will be detailed while also discussing barriers that prevent optimal care. This presentation will highlight ways that primary care clinicians can support patients with heart failure and optimize patient quality of life. | 1.0 credits (0.25 Pharmacology) | $30

The number of people experiencing heart failure continues to grow, making it imperative that primary care clinicians understand the management of heart failure. This presentation will review the new 2022 Guidelines for the Management of Heart Failure. Optimal heart failure care and how primary care clinicians can partner with patients and heart failure providers will be reviewed. Additionally, optimal care is always the goal, but it is often limited by reality so real-life barriers to optimal heart failure care and patient-centered care will be discussed. Ways that primary care clinicians care for patients after heart transplant will also be reviewed. | 1.0 credits (0.50 Pharmacology) | $30

This presentation will discuss on common thyroid disorders and management in the primary care setting. | 1.0 credits (0.50 Pharmacology) | $30

The program will review updates to the 2023 ADA guidelines as well as review treatment options for clinicians to treat appropriately. | 1.0 credits (1.0 Pharmacology) | $30

Therapeutic humor is an evidence-based tool used as an essential element of caring for self and others. We may feel more connected with others despite potential challenges when we have laughed together. Join this lively interactive session to exercise your funny bones, enjoy an upbeat cardio workout in a chair and enhance whole-person health. You will also gain tools for learning about what types of humor are most helpful, and bringing health-promoting humor into your life and practice setting. | 1.0 credits (0 Pharmacology) | $27.50

This presentation discusses updated diagnostic criteria and psychometric approaches to improve case identification, diagnosis & treatment of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorders. ADHD is redefined in the context of epigenetics and neurobiology, with specific attention to contemporary pharmacological approaches to manage the symptoms. Practical applications for nurse practitioners are presented. | 1.0 credits (0.66 Pharmacology) | $30

Updated diagnostic criteria and disease models for anxiety disorders are reviewed. Neurobiological and epigenetic mechanisms that underlie anxiety symptoms are presented as the basis for therapeutic interventions. Specific attention is given to the formulation of rational, genomically-informed pharmacologic treatment approaches for anxiety disorders. Practical applications for nurse practitioners are presented. | 1.5 credits (1.25 Pharmacology) | $40

The messages used in diabetes care are historically judgmental and shame/blame based. These messages have an impact on the way people with diabetes think about and care for themselves. This session will present the background and evidence for changing the way we speak to and about people with diabetes, including stories that highlight the problem, suggestions for change, and resources to help nurse practitioners make changes, communicate more effectively, and help their colleagues do the same. | 1.0 credits (0 Pharmacology) | $27.50

Compelling evidence suggests that both medications and therapeutic interventions are effective in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. The current “state of the science” involves multiple modalities to produce better outcomes than those observed with the use of either psychopharmacology or therapy alone. Nurse practitioners in all settings need to understand how various therapeutic interventions can profoundly influence clients’ ability to cope and change. Using the unifying framework developed by Hubble, Duncan and Miller, we examine the four common elements that account for much of the improvement seen in clients, regardless of the approach taken. These constructs are applied to a variety of simple, brief approaches that are easily enacted – and easily adapted – to any patient encounter. | 1.0 credits (0.33 Pharmacology) | $30

This presentation will teach participants to identify the emerging medical treatments for common disorders seen in primary care including rosacea, hidradenitis suppuritiva, folliculitis, cellulitis, venous stasis ulcers, contact dermatitis, tinea, shingles, pruritis, epidermoid cyst, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, alopecia, and cutaneous carcinoma | 1.50 credits (0.50 Pharmacology) | $40