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Course Description
Adult/Geriatric Drug Therapy - 2010

This online course is designed as a pharmacology update for nurse practitioners at the advanced practice level. Each module focuses on current recommendations and controversies regarding drug therapy for common problems in adult and geriatric health and include appropriate pharmacotherapeutic principles and recommendations for patient education.

Lectures were recorded in May 2010 at a conference in Seattle, Washington sponsored by the University of Washington School of Nursing. Teaching methods include lecture and downloadable handouts.

Course Requirements
You may register for the entire course or for single modules.
To receive contact hour credit:

  1. View the lecture
  2. Study the handouts
  3. Submit a short post-test (exam)
  4. Submit an evaluation

After submitting the post-test and evaluation, you will be able to print a certificate online.

Course Objectives
After completing this course, you will be better able to:

  • Describe relevant principles of physiology, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
  • Give a rationale for selecting a drug of choice.
  • Identify the goals of drug therapy.
  • Identify desired drug effects and evaluate patient response.
  • Describe special dosage situations.
  • Identify appropriate patient learning needs.

Contact Hours
8.9 contact hours will be awarded.

  • Continuing Nursing Education at the University of Washington School of Nursing is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
  • Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #07218 for 8.9 contact hours.

Additional Information
Estimated time to complete course: 8.9 hr
You will have one year from date of registration to complete this course.

Speakers

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Modules in this Course
Management of Chronic Kidney Disease
  Speaker: Ashley Jefferson, MD, FRCP
Content presented in this module is described in the learning objectives below. Teaching methods include a lecture and printable handout.   Contact Hours/Completion Time: 1.4 hr
  Learning Objectives
After completing this module, you will be better able to:
  1. Discuss estimated GFR (glomerular filtration rate).
  2. Describe common prescribing mistakes in patients with chronic kidney disease.
  3. Describe how renal function affects prescription of medications.
 
Pharmacologic Management of Anemia
  Speaker: Constance Morrison-Hoogstede, MN, ARNP
Content presented in this module is described in the learning objectives below. Teaching methods include a lecture and printable handout.   Contact Hours/Completion Time: 1.2 hr
  Learning Objectives
After completing this module, you will be better able to:
  1. Describe five causes of anemia that are amenable to pharmacologic therapy.
  2. Discuss the four principles of effective iron therapy.
  3. Discuss the relationship of gastric surgeries and the development of anemias.
 
To HRT or not to HRT: Is that the Right Question? An Update on Hormone Therapy
  Speaker: Nancy Fugate Woods, PhD, RN FAAN
Content presented in this module is described in the learning objectives below. Teaching methods include a lecture and printable handout.   Contact Hours/Completion Time: 1.6 hr
  Learning Objectives
After completing this module, you will be better able to:
  1. Discuss the history of hormone therapy in the US for symptom management and health promotion during the menopausal transition and beyond.
  2. Describe the responses to shifting treatment paradigms for midlife women from the perspectives of women, themselves, and health professionals.
  3. Discuss the hormone therapy options available for women to choose from.
  4. Describe the challenges for providing decision support in the presence of incomplete information and uncertainty.
 
Weighing the Evidence: Choosing the Best Pharmacologic Intervention
  Speaker: Steven Riddle, BS Pharm, BCPS, FASHP
Content presented in this module is described in the learning objectives below. Teaching methods include a lecture and printable handout.   Contact Hours/Completion Time: 1.3 hr
  Learning Objectives
After completing this module, you will be better able to:
  1. Describe the various sources of data for evaluating evidence regarding medication therapies.
  2. Identify key elements in clinical trails data for evaluating the relative value of medication therapies.
  3. Discuss how to evaluate the magnitude of benefit from comparative clinical trials data for medications.
  4. Describe the key considerations in patient compliance when prescribing and monitoring response to medications.
 
Drug Therapy for Addiction in Primary Care
  Speaker: Joseph Merrill, MPH, MD
Content presented in this module is described in the learning objectives below. Teaching methods include a lecture and printable handout.   Contact Hours/Completion Time: 1.2 hr
  Learning Objectives
After completing this module, you will be better able to:
  1. Discuss addition as a chronic medical disorder.
  2. Identify current pharmacotherapy for tobacco, alcohol and opioid addiction treatment.
  3. Discuss the role of the primary care physicians in treating addiction.
 
Hypertension: Bench, Guidelines, Bedside
  Speaker: Laurie Soine, PhD, ACNP, ARNP
Content presented in this module is described in the learning objectives below. Teaching methods include a lecture and printable handout.   Contact Hours/Completion Time: 1.2 hr
  Learning Objectives
After completing this module, you will be better able to:
  1. Define JNC (Joint National Committee) Hypertension Guidelines.
  2. Discuss evidence for hypertension pharmacologic treatment.
  3. Discuss evidence for lifestyle intervention for hypertension treatment.
 
The Ins and Outs of Asthma
  Speaker: Linda Dewitt, MN, ARNP
Content presented in this module is described in the learning objectives below. Teaching methods include a lecture and printable handout.   Contact Hours/Completion Time: 1 hr
  Learning Objectives
After completing this module, you will be better able to:
  1. Describe appropriate drug therapies based on stepwise approach to asthma management.
  2. Discuss similarities/differences between asthma and COPD.
  3. Describe how to facilitate patient adherence to pharmacological and non-pharmacological asthma therapies.
 

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