Certification Review/Clinical Update Continuing Education Course
- Extensive course manual
Course Overview
Test-taking and Study Strategies for Success
Extensive Review of System-Specific Problems Across the Adult – Older Adult Age Spectrum
- Cardiovascular
- Pulmonary
- Endocrine
- Neurological
- Renal/genitourinary
- GYN/STDs/STIs
- Gastrointestinal
- Hematology
- Oncology
- Immunology
- Musculoskeletal
- Head, Eyes, Ears, Nose, and Throat
- Psychiatric
- Miscellaneous
Psychosocial Health Issues
- Violence
- Depression
- Substance abuse
- Anxiety
- Sexuality
- Powerlessness
- Altered mental status
- Grief
Common Problems in Acute Care
- Fever
- Shock
- Nutritional imbalances
- Fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base imbalances
- Poisoning and drug toxicities
- Pain (acute, chronic)
- Wound management
- Infections (community, hospital, opportunistic)
- Immobility
- Palliative care (end-of-life, pain management)
- Transplantation
Nurse Practitioner/Patient Relationship
- Professional therapeutic relationships
- Advanced directives
- Privacy and confidentiality
- Crisis intervention
- Therapeutic communication
- Patient autonomy
- Collaboration
- Cultural competence and sensitivity
Advanced Health/Physical Assessment and Diagnosis Across the Adult – Older Adult Age Spectrum
- Comprehensive health assessments
- Patient risk analyses
- Epidemiology
- Screening exams
- Differential diagnoses of complex acute, critical and chronic illnesses
- Selecting and prioritizing invasive and noninvasive diagnostics
- Diagnostic reasoning
- Prioritization
- Laboratory analyses
- Health promotion considerations
Advanced Physiology and Pathophysiology Across the Adult – Older Adult Age Spectrum
Advanced Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics
- Pharmacokinetics
- Pharmacodynamics
- Pharmacogenetics
- System-specific agents
- Adverse events
- Over-the-counter preparations
- Drug interactions
- Alternative therapies
Clinical Management
- Integrating and applying evidence-based practice
- Standards of care
- Clinical guidelines
- Management of acute, chronic, and complex conditions
- Service consultation and/or referral
- Documentation
- Health promotion
- Risk factor management
- Patient teaching
- Evaluating outcomes
Health Care Delivery and Health Care Systems
- Coordination of multidisciplinary care
- Health care policy
- Resource allocation
- Negotiating and implementing the plan of care among providers
- Therapeutic communication
- Adult learning principles, coaching, and anticipatory guidance
- Navigating the health care system on behalf of the patient
- Federal and state regulations
- Health care financing
- Billing and coding
- Reimbursement and third party payers
- Access to care
- Institutional, federal and state regulations
- Continuous quality improvement and safety
- Information technologies
- Root cause analyses
- Sentinel events
- Conflict management
- Error prevention
Professional Role
- Scope of practice
- Standards of practice
- Credentialing
- Privileging
- Time management
- Advocating for the patient
- Multidisciplinary collaboration
- Leadership roles
- Billing and reimbursement
- Peer review
- Adult learning principles
- Ethical principles
- Legal principles
- Patient abandonment
- Confidentiality
- Medical futility
- Informed consent
- Research methods
- Evaluating evidence