Home Study Pharmacology Update 2008 Agenda

 Part 1

·         Pharmacology Update:  Emerging Trends

·         Are Drugs the Answer to An Old Problem?  What’s on the Horizon?

·         Pharmacologic Controversies in the Management of Common Adult Problems and Diagnoses

o        Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease

o        Asthma

o        Gastrointestinal Disturbances

o        Pain

o        Hypertension

o        Others

·         The Latest Newly-Approved Pharmacotherapeutic Agents

·         WARNINGS:  What to Watch and Why

Part II

·         Pharmacology Update:  Men’s Health

·         Inflammatory Reproductive Disorders in Men

o        Epididymitis

o        Prostatitis

o        Balanitis

o        Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy 

o        Erectile Dysfunction

o        Premature Ejaculation

o        Delayed Ejaculation/Orgasm

Part III

Pharmacology Update:  STDs/STIs – What’s New?

Part IV

·         Pharmacology Update:  Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases

·         Recently Approved Antimicrobials

·         Rational Use of Outpatient Antibiotics

·         Inpatient Antibiotic Controversies

·         Drug Resistance Update

·         Pharmacotherapeutic Management Update of Select Topics

o        Upper Respiratory Infections Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP)

o        Cellulitis

o        Community-Acquired Methicillin Resistant S. aureus  (CA-MRSA)

o        Viral Dilemmas

o        Immunizations and Vaccinations:  Are You Up-to-Date?

o        Bioterrorism Threats:  From Nowhere to NOW HERE

Part V

·         Pharmacology Update:

·         Prescribing Problems and Nightmare 

·         Prescription and Prescribing Errors Polypharmacy: The Spectrum and Front-line Options

·         Strategies to Improve NP Prescribing Practices