Pharmacology for Advanced Practice Clinicians
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Friday, August 8, 2008 8:00 am - 12:30 pm - San Francisco
Friday, September 19, 2008 8:00 am - 12:30 pm - Las Vegas
To register click here and register for Friday only under Daily Registration in the appropriate city.
This course meets the California BRN’s requirements for furnishing Schedule II Controlled Substances and will focus on principles of pharmacology related to pharmacotherapeutic management of patients whose illness, injury or condition requires evaluation and treatment using Schedule II controlled substances. The pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles of Schedule II medications commonly used in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of common health care conditions will be included. In addition, legal requirements for furnishing controlled substances as well as principles related to patient-specific protocols for Schedule II and III controlled substances will be covered.
For more information on Schedule II Controlled Substance requirements from the California Board of Registered Nursing visit: www.rn.ca.gov |
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- Identify the relationship of the natural history of illness, disease or injury, pathophysiology, and symptomatology to pharmacotherapeutic agents commonly used to treat patients with conditions requiring the use of Schedule II medications related to primary care.
- Be familiar with state laws and federal regulations pertaining to furnishing, dispensing, and administering controlled substances Schedule II through V medications.
- Identify components necessary for prescription writing for Schedule II through V medication consistent with Health and Safety and Pharmacy laws.
- Outline the required components of a furnishing standardized procedure or protocol for Schedule II and III controlled substance medications in a Patient-Specific Protocol in accordance with Business and Profession Code, Section 2836.1, including the clinician’s education, experience, and competence to furnish controlled substances.
- Describe ethical and legal standards and ramifications of prescribing controlled substances.
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Common Schedule II drugs used in primary care, including pharmacokinetics and dynamics, mechanisms of action, clinical actions, dosing, adverse effects, drug interactions, risk of dependency/addiction, withdrawal, antagonists.
I. Stimulant Medications:
a. Methylphenidate-based including Ritalin, Concerta, Metadate, Focalin and Others.
b. Amphetamine-based including Dexedrine, Adderal and Others.
II. Opioid Narcotics for pain management, cough suppression, etc.
a. Morphine, Oxycodone, Fentanyl, Meperidine, Methadone, Codeine and Others.
Legal aspects of Prescribing Schedule II through V controlled substances:
a. Patient-specific protocols or standardized procedures specific to Schedule II and III drugs.
b. State laws & federal regulations pertaining to furnishing, dispensing & administering Schedule II through V controlled substances by NP’s.
c. Components of prescription writing for Schedule II-V drugs.
d. Ethical and legal standards and ramifications. |
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San Francisco
President, PRN Associates
Tucson, Arizona
Adjunct Associate Professor
Brown University Medical School
Providence, Rhode Island
Owner, Seminars in Health Education, Inc.
Family & Geriatric Nurse Practitioner
TLC Healthcare Companies, Inc.Tucson, Arizona
Pharmacy Regulatory Compliance and Professional Affairs Leader for a California Managed Care Organization
Downey, California
Las Vegas
President, PRN Associates
Tucson, Arizona
Adjunct Associate Professor
Brown University Medical School
Providence, Rhode Island
Owner, Seminars in Health Education, Inc.
Family & Geriatric Nurse Practitioner
TLC Healthcare Companies, Inc.Tucson, Arizona
(By video presentation)
Pharmacy Regulatory Compliance and Professional Affairs Leader for a California Managed Care Organization
Downey, California
(By video presentation)
CANP Government Relations Director
Foothill Ranch, California |
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Contemporary Forums is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation (ANCC). ANCC does not assign numbers to their providers. If you utilize ANCC credit and the form requests a course provider #, "ANCC-approved" should be used.
Contemporary Forums is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #04516. If your California license number is not listed on your Certificate of Attendance, please be sure to write it on your Certificate so the BRN can verify your attendance should you be audited.
Contemporary Forums is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Contemporary Forums designates this educational activity for a maximum of the listed AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The Continuing Education Committee of the American College of Nurse-Midwives grants reciprocity to the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) for Category 1 offerings, providing the program is relevant to nurse- midwifery. Nurse-Midwives may report up to the listed hours of credit.
The American Academy of Physician Assistants accepts Category 1 CME approval from organizations accredited by the ACCME to grant Category 1 hours toward the Physician's Recognition Award. PA's attending this course may report up to the listed hours of credit. PA’s should claim only those hours actually spent participating in the CME activity.
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