Advanced Practice Provider Clinical Skills Workshop 1 (APPCSW1) - Texas
In-Person EventNov 16 - 17, 2018Dallas, Texas, USA
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OVERVIEW
Advanced Practice Provider Clinical Skills Workshop 1 (APPCSW1) is organized by Provider Practice Essentials, LLC and will be held from Nov 16 - 17, 2018 at Aloft Dallas Downtown, Dallas, Texas, United States of America.
The target audience for this medical event is Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners who plan to practice in primary care, urgent care, or emergency department setting. It is also open to practitioners from all other specialties who wish to maintain their skills or learn additional skills to enhance their practice. It is designed for a wide spectrum of providers ranging from those who do not have immediate life-saving capabilities on hand to those who work in trauma centers.
Accreditation:
22 CME credits from the AAPA and 22.25 CME credits (including 1.25 contact hours of pharmacology) from the AANP.
Course Description :
Advanced Practice Workshop for Primary, Urgent, and Emergency Care” is an intense, comprehensive 2-day course designed to incorporate lectures, video, handouts, simulation, and hands-on education of learner participants to bolster their respective professional education. The primary focus of this course is to supplement education and provide confidence in skills identified as areas of weakness for providers who are newly out of training, transitioning from one medical specialty to another, or wish to enhance their current practice with currently accepted medical care and clinical guidelines. There will be an additional focus to maximize compliance with federally mandated Physician Quality Reporting (PQRS) measures related to course content.
Course Objectives are:
The overall objective for this course will be to provide a structured supplemental skills training program that will allow the participant to broaden their basic clinical knowledge base, and also provide prospective employers, supervisors, and, when applicable, hospital credentials documentation of their mastery of this material in the form of a certification that will be earned by passing an examination at the end of the program.
Two full days of live education:
• High quality lectures and clinical skills program
• Cardiac Disorders
• EKG interpretations
• Pulmonary Diseases
• Entire Body X-ray interpretations
• Deadly skin diseases
• Suture Clinic
• Hands on Procedure Workshop
• Foreign Body (fish hook) removal
• Nail Trephination
• Skin Staples
• Punch Biopsy
• Needle Decompression
• Chest Tube Insertion
• Knee aspiration and injection
• Shoulder aspiration and injection
• Splinting Workshop
• Intraosseus Line insertion
• Central Venous Catheter Insertion
• Lumbar Puncture