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Save
the date!
Annual Lane County Nurse Practitioner Update
Saturday March 14, 2009 – 8-4
Lane Community
College Center for Meeting and Learning
in Eugene
- Topics include:\DM:
an update, hot topics, impaired fasting glucose
bisphosphenates and beyond: vitamin D-new implications
pediatric asthma: the new and old, natural disease, vaccines and more - pelvic floor dysfunction
- hypertension: an update
- infectious disease:
community antibiotic trends and
hepatitis B/C
Come connect with
colleagues, gather clinical pearls, enjoy
good food, and learn something new. Watch for registration.
Lifetime membership will be available.
Contact hours for
this continuing nursing education
activity have been submitted to WSNA, an accredited approver
by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission
on Accreditation. Please contact jolene
Siemsen at LCNPA for more information about contact hours.
Have you checked out Medscape?
Unique Nurse Practitioner and other provider health care information, news, CE options, Conferences, Resource Centers, Journals & References, Experts & Viewpoints. Newe Users: FREE Registration! Check it out now for up to date information!
Hepatitis Web Study - www.hepwebstudy.org. The site was designed for health care workers who provide clinical care to persons with viral hepatitis, and is a companion site to the HIV Web Study – www.hivwebstudy.org. Funded by a federal grant from the Division of Viral Hepatitis in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this site features:
- Fourteen interactive, clinically-relevant case studies, each with a discussion, high quality illustrations and graphics, and links, that highlight and illustrate key recommendations from national guidelines;
- Free continuing education credits, including an easy way to print CME/CNE documentation and an electronic CE tracker;
- Numerous high quality figures that the user can easily download into Power Point slides;
- Reference linked to Pub Med abstracts, Federal Guidelines sites, and/or CDC MMWR documents;
Please visit the site and feel free to share it with your colleagues! Return visits are encouraged as the site will be updated on an ongoing basis and will continue to be expanded.
New Pain Management CE Requirement Tied to Healthcare Provider License Renewals
SB 885, passed in 2001 Oregon Legislative session, mandated a new painmanagement CE requirement tied to healthcare provider license renewals. All nurses, including NP's, must complete seven hours of CE related to pain management to renew their license. Look here for information.
OHSU
School of Nursing offers
Online Pain Management Course for Nurses
FREE
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FREE PRESCRIBING REFERENCE AVAILABLE TO NPS. The Nurse Practitioner Prescribing Reference, a quarterly publication, is an up-to-date guide to commonly prescribed pharmaceuticals, as well as certain over-the-counter products. It provides an easily accessible reminder of basic information useful to review when prescribing medications, such as specific indications for use, dosage and a checklist of precautions, interactions and adverse drug reactions. Contact 1-617-923-8519 to request an application for a free subscription if you don't already receive this booklet.
Willing to Share "Clinical Pearls" with Your Colleagues? If you are interested in this feature on your NPO Website, please submit your practice pointers to NPO Contact, and they will be featured in a special section each month. If you learn interesting facts or news of interest to NP practice in Oregon, also submit this.