Family Nurse Practitioner
(FNP)
Certification Review/Clinical Update
Live Course
 

Barkley & Associates is approved as a provider of nurse practitioner
continuing education by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners: AANP Provider Number 081018. This program has been approved for 22.5 contact hours of continuing education (which includes 12 hours of pharmacology).

• 3 full DAYS with not one, but TWO outstanding faculty experts!

• 12 hours of pediatric & adolescent content PLUS

• 12 hours of adult & gerontological content!

• 22.5 contact hours of CE (certificate)

• Extensive Course Manual

• 12 hours of Pediatric content

• 12 hours of Adult content

• 12 hours of pharmacology credit

• Total course run time 24 hours

• Individual attention from the faculty

• Small classroom environment

• Morning coffee service & afternoon soda break in most cities

• Special unpublished hotel rates for course attendees (when available)

• Test-taking and Study Strategies for Success

• Clinical Management
  • Standards of advanced practice
  • Clinical guidelines
• Pharmacotherapeutics
  • Prioritize (cost, availability interaction)
  • Plan (metabolism, half-life, pharmacotherapeutics)
  • Prescribe (dosing, scheduling)
  • Education (patient, family)
  • Evaluation (effectiveness)
• Clinical Therapeutics
  • Non-pharmacologic modalities, diet, exercise, alternative therapies
  • Management, education, evaluation
• Clinical Decision-Making
  • Prioritizing
  • Diagnostic reasoning
  • Diagnostic testing
  • Consultation/collaboration
  • Referrals
• Documentation
• Safety
• Theory Application
  • Health belief model, theory or reasoned action, theory of planned behavior, stress appraisal theory, coping, family systems theory, transtheoretical model, teaching/learning models, pathophysiologic theories
• Professional Role and Policy
  • Healthcare/public policy (medicaid, medicare)
  • Reimbursement
  • Laws and regulations
  • Consent (minority/majority), advocacy
  • Scope of practice (nurse practice acts, regulation of practice, management of care, consultation/collaboration)
  • Access to care/coordination of care
• Nurse Practitioner and the Patient Relationship
  • Cultural competence
  • Therapeutic communication
  • Teaching/coaching/advocacy
• Assessment of Acute and Chronic Illnesses
  • Epidemiological/disease control
  • Anatomy/anatomical variants
  • Physiology
  • Psychosocial implications
  • Diagnostic reasoning (analyze clinical data, establish diagnosis)

• Research
  • Research process/utilization
  • Continuous process improvement/outcomes evaluation
• Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
  • Epidemiology/risk analysis (psychosocial, physiological and environmental risk factors)
  • Genetics
  • Risk reduction and health behavior guidelines (educational counseling, lifestyle modifications)
  • Growth and development across the lifespan
  • Screening (history, physical, labs, clinical guidelines, risk, benefits, cost)
  • Wellness assessment (violence, abuse, neglect, substance use, nutrition, exercise, tobacco use)
• Life Span Areas (non age-specific, aging adult, adult, adolescent, child, infant, child-bearing woman)
• Extensive Review of System-Specific Health Problems
  • HEENT
  • Respiratory
  • Cardiovascular
  • Gastrointestinal
  • Renal/genitourinary
  • Male reproductive
  • Female reproductive
  • Musculoskeletal
  • Neurological
  • Endocrine
  • Hematopoietic
  • Immune
  • Integumentary
  • Lymphatic
  • Allergies
  • Psychosocial/behavior/cultural
  • Communicable/infectious diseases
  • Emergencies
  • Functional limitations
  • Normal and abnormal development
  • Learning disabilities
  • Nutrition
  • Oncology
  • Violence
  • Dependency