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Overview
There are approximately 600+ credentialed APP’s at Baystate Health practicing in a number of different divisions. With the continuous changes that are occurring in health care diagnosis and treatments, Advanced Practitioners need frequent updates on the latest medical practices, guidelines and research activities that address local community health concerns and active quality improvement initiatives for Baystate. An educational day will help to provide attendees (APRNs, PAs, MDs, RNs, PharmDs) up-to-date guidelines in health management across all disciplines. This will also provide the opportunity for professional development and networking with colleagues from across Baystate Health.
Target Audience
There are approximately 600+ credentialed APP’s at Baystate Health practicing in a number of different divisions. These practitioners include CNPs, CNMs, CNSs, PAs, and CRNAs. The program will also be open to MDs, pharmacists, and support staff (i.e. RNs, CMAs)
Learning Objectives
- Identify different causes of peripheral edema.
- Formulate a plan to treat peripheral edema.
- Identify the risk factors for developing PAD and what diagnostic tests can help confirm your diagnosis.
- Discuss what constitutes symptomatic peripheral vascular disease and when should patients receive a referral.
- Discuss the treatment options including both conservative management as well intervention.
- Identify and describe the available frameworks for serious illness communication
- Explain the literature on advance care planning and serious illness communication
- Describe the skills available to practice improving serious illness communication
- Identify hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder and complex pain conditions by recognizing key clinical and behavioral indicators.
- Develop an evidence-based management plan that includes appropriate pain control strategies and medications while addressing opioid use disorder.
- Implement effective discharge and transition strategies to ensure continuity of care, minimize relapse risk, and optimize long-term pain and addiction management
- Recognize the scope of resistant hypertension: definition, epidemiology, and etiologies
- Adapt a pragmatic approach to the management of patients with resistant hypertension
- Describe the roles of impedance cardiography and renal denervation in the armamentarium of evaluation and treatment of resistant hypertension
- Recognize current approaches to the use of anticoagulants and when to use left atrial appendage closure
- Discuss when to pursue rhythm control and better recognize the role of catheter ablation
- Recognize the various rate control agents and when to use or avoid them.
- Describe the classification of Heart failure will dictate goal-directed therapy.
- Discuss the Goal-directed therapy for Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction HFrEF
- Identify When to Refer to Specialist
- Define professional vitality and its impact on professional development
- Discuss the contextual factors that influence professional vitality
- Identify ways to enhance one’s professional vitality
- Describe the “vital signs of the eye”
- Recall the various important structures of the eye as they relate to common ocular emergencies
- Recognize 7 important ocular emergencies (plus 1 mimic), how to treat them, and when to call for help
- Define sepsis and septic shock, explain the pathophysiology and recognize early signs and symptoms.
- Outline primary treatment protocols for ICU-admitted sepsis patients; Highlight common complications and strategies for managing them.
- Discuss long-term impacts of sepsis and strategies for outpatient monitoring; Emphasize the importance of early detection, intervention, and preventive measures.
- Describe the basics of how the lymphatic system functions to move fluid.
Venue
Faculty
FACULTY
Raquel Belforti, DO, MS
Associate Dean of Education
Baystate Health
Associate Professor
UMass Chan-Baystate
Paula Brooks, DNP, Course Director
Director of Advanced Practitioners
Baystate Medical Center
Booker Bush, MD
Baystate Medical Center
Colton Conrad, MD
Baystate Medical Center
Barbara Greco, MD
Associate Professor
UMass Chan-Baystate
Amanda Kravetz, MD
Vascular Surgeon
Baystate Medical Center
Jared Ostroff, PharmD, MBA, BCACP, BCGP, Planner
Program Manager, Ambulatory Pharmacy
Baystate Medical Center
Sharon Woods, PA, Planner
Physician Assistant
Division of Geriatrics
Baystate Medical Center
Adrianne Seiler, MD, Planner
Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMASS Chan-Baystate Health
Chief Clinical Officer
Baystate Medical Center
Barry Rodstein, MD, MPH, MA
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, BMC
John P. Marenco, MD, FACC, FHRS
Cardiac electrophysiologist
Pioneer Valley Cardiology
Emily Stout, MSN, RN, AGPCNP-BC
Nurse Practitioner
Palliative Medicine
Baystate Medical Center
Bill Soares, MD
Director of Harm Reduction Services
Dept of Emergency Medicine, Baystate Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
UMASS Chan Medical School
Bogdan Tiru, MD
Critical Care Physician
Baystate Medical Center
Assistant Professor
UMass Chan-Baystate
Name of Individual | Individual's Role in Activity | Financial Relationship Disclosure | Discussion of | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paula Brooks, DNP | Course Director, Planner, Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No | |
| Jared Ostroff, PharmD, MBA, BCACP, BCGP | Planner | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No | |
| Sharon Woods, PA | Planner | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No | |
| Adrianne Seiler, MD | Planner |
| No | |
| Raquel Belforti, DO, MS | Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No | |
| Booker Bush, MD | Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No | |
| Colton Conrad, MD | Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No | |
| Barbara Greco, MD | Speaker | Advisor for MedicaMedix, Chair, Data Monitoring Board for Sanofi, Data Safety Monitoring Board Prokidney React | No | |
| Amanda Kravetz, MD | Speaker | No relevant relationships with inelegible companies to disclose | No | |
| Barry Rodstein, MD, MPH, MA | Speaker | No relevant relationships with inelegible companies to disclose | No | |
| John P. Marenco, MD, FACC, FHRS | Speaker | No relevant relationships with inelegible companies to disclose | No | |
| Bill Soares, MD | Speaker | No relevant relationships with inelegible companies to disclose | No | |
| Bogdan Tiru, MD | Speaker | No relevant relationships with inelegible companies to disclose | No | |
| Emily Stout, MSN, RN, AGPCNP-BC | Speaker | No relevant relationships with inelegible companies to disclose | No |
Faculty Disclosure
Dr. Barbara Greco is a consultant for AA Pharmaceuticals, advisor for MedicaMedix and holds the position of chair for the Data Monitoring Board at Sanofi, as well as the Data Safety Monitoring Board for Prokidney React.
All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.
None of the other planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Accreditation
Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, Baystate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Credit Designation Statements
Physicians (AMA) | |
American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) | |
AAPA Credit Designation Statement | |
 This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team and learners will receive 6.75 Interprofessional Continuing Education. |
Available Credit
- 6.75 AAPA Category 1 CME creditBaystate Health has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 6.75 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PA’s should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
- 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 6.75 ANCC Contact Hours
- 6.75 IPCE Credit Hour(s)