Continuing Education Review/Clinical Update Course
Course Overview
Test-taking and Study Strategies for Success
Psychiatric Disorders
- Thought
- Mood
- Anxiety
- Personality
- Substance use
- Childhood
- Others
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
- Epidemiology
- Risk analyses
- Diverse population considerations
- National health guidelines
- Growth and development
- Screening instruments
- Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention
- Patient and family teaching
Assessment of Acute and Chronic Illness
- Anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology
- Psychopathology
- Extensive psychiatric evaluations
- Comprehensive vs. problem focused assessments
- Functional assessments
- Screening and diagnostic testing
- Advanced diagnostic reasoning
- Differential diagnoses
- Formulating the plan of care
- Prioritization
The Nurse Practitioner and Patient Relationship
- Therapeutic relationships
- Therapeutic communication
- Establishing rapport
- Family dynamics
- Social support
- Cultural sensitivity and competency
- Ethical principles
- Legal principles
- Informed consent
- National mandates
Clinical Management
- Pharmacotherapeutics
- Non-pharmacologic interventions and complimentary therapies
- Documentation
- Psychotherapy
- Psychoeducation
- Clinical guidelines
- Evidence-based practice
- Continuous quality improvement
- Crisis intervention
- Evaluation of treatment
- Establishing the plan of care
Professional Role and Policy
- Regulatory processes
- Federal guidelines
- Access to care
- Billing and coding
- Reimbursement
- Scope of practice
- Standards of practice
- Continuous quality improvement
- Ethical principles
- Informed consent
- Advanced directives
- Power of attorney
- Advocating and negotiating for the patient
- Research methods
- Evaluating evidence
- Research utilization