Acute Care - 2021 Annual Conference

This specialty NCPD (nursing continuing professional development) package focuses on topics that are relevant to the Nurse Practitioner in Acute Care caring for the older adult. The topics include fluid & electrolytes, heart failure, delirium, LVAD, and hematologic/oncologic emergencies.

This package includes 4.75 contact hours (which includes .5 hours of pharmacology credit).

Contact hours available until 10/2/2023.

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Fluid and Electrolytes

Identification: 141

Credits: None available.

Speaker(s):

• John Gaillard, MD, Associate Professor, Wake Forest Baptist Health

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Heart Failure in Older Adults

Identification: 161

Credits: None available.

Speaker(s):

• Jennifer Ballard-Hernandez, DNP, NP, FACC, FAHA, FAANP, Clinical Nurse Advisor, VA Central Office, Nursing Services

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Delirium in Older Adults with COVID-19 Presenting to the Emergency Department

Identification: 231

Credits: None available.

Speaker(s):

• J. Michelle Moccia, DNP, RN, ANP-BC, GS-C, Program Director and Nurse Practitioner, St. Mary Mercy Hospital

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Destination Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) in the Older Adult

Identification: 241

Credits: None available.

Speaker(s):

• Greg Marler, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC, FCCP, Assistant Professor, Appalachian State University

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Hematology/Oncology Emergencies

Identification: 341

Credits: None available.

Speaker(s):

• Rebecca D. Suttle, DNP, CRNP, AGACNP-BC, Instructor and Adult-Gero Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Specialty Track Coordinator, University of Alabama at Birmingham