Consultant Pharmacist License Renewal

This CPE program will introduce the participant to the assessment and management of acute pain. This program will be given in two parts. Part 1 will focus on acute non-surgical pain while Part 2 will focus on acute surgical pain and patient controlled analgesia. This program will provide the consultant pharmacist with knowledge and skill in the selection of drug therapy and recommend appropriate efficacy and safety monitoring for both opioid and non-opioid therapies used in the management of both acute non-surgical and surgical pain.   

The goal of this program is to review these conditions and their treatments so as to better understand how they fit into the overall risk picture for metabolic syndrome. Learners will successfully view recorded lecture content available online via an online Learning Management System, complete required readings, and assessment activities for a total of 6.0 hours of CPE.

The course is intended to provide the legal framework for regulation of HDS, what potential quality indicators can be used to make informed recommendations for use, and adequate communication with patients to avoid or reduce the risk of drug interactions with concomitant HDS use.

The purpose of this course is to provide the pharmacist with an overview of motivational interviewing terms and techniques as a communication and counseling approach designed to help patients find their own motivation to make a positive change in their behavior.

This course will update the pharmacist in the prevention and management of infectious diseases and issues that are important to the care of patients in such long-term settings.

The content of this program will provide the pharmacist with a review of thromboembolic risk factors and coagulation disorders. Utilizing current guidelines and recommendations, this program will provide the learner with the tools necessary to provide routine management of anticoagulant therapy in outpatient settings. Key concepts will be reinforced though case applications.

Pharmacists have an important role in providing diabetes management. The content of this program will provide the pharmacist with a review of the pathophysiology of diabetes, oral an injectable diabetes medications and therapeutic plan development. 

During this educational activity, the learner will learn to recognize, treat, and control this chronic condition using patient-centered care.  The learner will have an overview of asthma and will be familiar with patient assessment, the appropriate treatments and correct use of inhalers and devices used in asthma.