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- Professional Development
- Professional Issues
- Contact hours
$20.00
1.0 NAPNAP Contact Hour. This continuing education activity is offered at a reduced rate to NAPNAP Members. This continuing education activity rate is 10$ for NAPNAP Members. For non- members, this continuing education activity rate is 20$. With the rapid acceleration of DNP clinician graduates, more DNP-prepared NPs are being recruited into academia. The current faculty vacancy average rate is nearly 8 percent with 90 percent of those vacancies seeking doctorly-prepared candidates. Considering transitioning from the clinic to the classroom? Thinking about an adjunct or part-time faculty role to balance with practice or perhaps a full-time academic position with a faculty practice? This presentation will give you practical career advice, comparing both clinical and research tracks, giving you a survival guide for academia from an experienced faculty member.
- Mental Health
- Professional Development
- Professional Issues
- Contact hours
$20.00
1.0 NAPNAP Contact Hour. This continuing education activity is offered at a reduced rate to NAPNAP Members. This continuing education activity rate is $10 for NAPNAP Members. For non-members, this continuing education activity rate is $20. This session will review the use of evidence-based resources to assist pediatric-focused APRN providers in leading the response to the epidemic of mental health crises in our youth (including anxiety, trauma, and depression). Clinicians will utilize tools including the AAP Blueprint for Youth Suicide Prevention to identify, support, and treat children and adolescents at risk for suicide in any practice setting. Attendance at this session will help increase the practitioner’s confidence in addressing these issues in daily practice.
NAPNAP Partners for Vulnerable Youth is pleased to support this course.
- Primary Care
- Mental Health
- Professional Development
- Contact hours
$20.00
1.0 NAPNAP Contact Hour. This continuing education activity is offered at a reduced rate to NAPNAP Members. This continuing education activity rate is $10 for NAPNAP Members. For non-members, this continuing education activity rate is $20. This talk is an overview of gender and identity development, LGBTQ+ terminology, and practical recommendations for allyship. We will discuss how to support and respect adolescent patients presenting in the clinic setting.
- Primary Care
- Mental Health
- Professional Development
- Contact hours
$15.00
0.75 NAPNAP Contact Hour. This continuing education activity is offered at a reduced rate to NAPNAP Members. This continuing education activity rate is $7.5 for NAPNAP Members. For non-members, this continuing education activity rate is $15. Nurse practitioners frequently engage in high stakes, high intensity, and difficult conversations. These difficult conversations can involve new diagnoses, unexpected findings, escalation of care, disclosure of error, and other emotionally charged topics. This session will discuss evidence-based communication techniques that can be used in these challenging conversations.
- Primary Care
- Mental Health
- Contact hours
$20.00
1.0 NAPNAP Contact Hour. This continuing education activity is offered at a reduced rate to NAPNAP Members. This continuing education activity rate is $10 for NAPNAP Members. For non-members, this continuing education activity rate is $20. Oral contraceptives have been a mainstay in adolescent reproductive management for many years. While many providers are knowledgeable in this therapeutic management for birth control and dysfunctional uterine bleeding, there are many more indications of use. This presentation will offer broader considerations for the common birth control and DUB decision making, as well as review the use of OC in premenstrual conditions, ovarian dysgenesis, Turner's syndrome and Acne.
- Primary Care
- Mental Health
- Contact hours
$20.00
1.0 NAPNAP Contact Hour. This continuing education activity is offered at a reduced rate to NAPNAP Members. This continuing education activity rate is $10 for NAPNAP Members. For non-members, this continuing education activity rate is $20. Juul? So last decade! What are all these new products kids are using? Disposable vapes with 1500 puffs and 4-5 packs of cigarettes worth of nicotine? TikTok sellers offering mail order “parent-proof” packaging--wasn’t the legal age raised to 21? Flavored products used by 85% of youth--weren’t flavored pods banned? Menthol flavoring ban—health equity solution or health equity problem? “What are wellness vapes”? This session will answer these questions and more and help you stay up-to-date in the ever evolving word of tobacco, vaping and nicotine. Attendees will leave with the latest evidence of the physical, neurodevelopmental, behavioral health and environmental harms associated with youth tobacco/nicotine use. We will also discuss health equity issues related to tobacco use and current policy and regulatory issues and challenges. You will leave with current resources to help address both prevention and cessation issues in your practices, schools and communities.
- Primary Care
- Contact hours
$20.00
1.0 NAPNAP Contact Hour. This continuing education activity is offered at a reduced rate to NAPNAP Members. This continuing education activity rate is $10 for NAPNAP Members. For non-members, this continuing education activity rate is $20. According to the CDC, 2-5 million, animal bites occur annually in the United States and per the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC), close to 10,000 insect bites or stings were reported to their centers. This presentation will be delivered in a case study format to help the participant identify needed history taking, recognize proper wound care if needed, and delineate required interventions. Lastly, appropriate pharmacology will be introduced, including a discussion on if and when antimicrobials and prophylaxis are warranted.
- Primary Care
- Mental Health
- Contact hours
$20.00
1.0 NAPNAP Contact Hour. This continuing education activity is offered at a reduced rate to NAPNAP Members. This continuing education activity rate is $10 for NAPNAP Members. For non-members, this continuing education activity rate is $20. This presentation will discuss infant sleep patterns and the effectiveness of sleep training. Our research seeks to understand infant sleep norms, parental perceptions of infant sleep problems, correlations between infant sleep issues and parental wellbeing, and the effectiveness of sleep training. We hypothesize that infant sleep counseling will lead to improved measures of infant sleep, lower incidence of parental stress, and reduced incidence of unsafe sleep practices such as bedsharing.
- Primary Care
- FREE for Members
- Infectious Disease
- Contact hours
$0.00
1.0 NAPNAP Contact Hour. This continuing education activity is FREE to NAPNAP Members. Why should you be concerned about tick bites? While the bite is small, we should worry about tick bites as ticks are vectors for various diseases including: Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Lyme Disease, Powassan, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Tularemia, and others.
- Acute Care
- Contact hours
$30.00
1.5 NAPNAP Contact Hour. This continuing education activity is offered at a reduced rate to NAPNAP Members. This continuing education activity rate is $15 for NAPNAP Members. For non- members, this continuing education activity rate is $30.
Current national guidelines in the treatment of acute bacterial sinusitis and otitis media will be discussed. Astute clinical observation by both the primary and acute care provider is key to diagnosing life threatening complications from acute bacterial sinusitis and otitis media that require brain surgery and antibiotic therapy. These treatment strategies will be discussed throughout this continuing education.