Enhance your expertise in rheumatology care with this comprehensive course designed for healthcare providers. Learn to effectively assess patient and family needs through phone triage and clinic visits, deliver targeted education on disease management, and ensure optimal medication oversight. This course also emphasizes a structured, team-based approach to care coordination, empowering you to provide holistic and informed care to patients with rheumatic conditions.
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All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.
NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, and others.
Continuing Education Information: Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Program content is reviewed periodically per accrediting board rules for currency and appropriateness for credit. Credit approvals are subject to change. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval.
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Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.
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Earn up to 1.25 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by state and profession.
This self-study program offers 15 instructional minutes of pharmacology content which is designed to qualify for .25 contact hours toward your pharmacology requirement.
PESI, Inc. is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Nurses completing these self-study materials will earn 1.25 contact hours. Expires: 12/11/2028.
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Rheumatology Patient Education and Care Coordination (3.1 MB) | 41 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Amy B. Harris, MSN, APN, OCNS-C spent 30 years working in a variety of orthopedic settings to include rheumatology, level one trauma hospital in-patient units, ambulatory care settings, a rehabilitation hospital, operating rooms, and in out-patient orthopedics. She has focused her career as a rheumatology nurse coordinator for the past 9 years, with active membership in the Rheumatology Nurses Society.
Her expertise has additionally been recognized through certification as an Orthopedic Clinical Nurse Specialist. Amy’s commitment to the National Association of Orthopedic Nurses (NAON) is evident through her participation as a national congress speaker, serving on the education committee, and through appointment as co-chair of NAON’s first full day APN conference.
As a member of the test committee for the Orthopedic Nursing Certification Board (ONCB), she has been an item-writer for the ONCB’s certification exams. With her honed expertise, Amy has also presented orthopedic certification exam review courses around the country.
Amy has earned distinction as a sought-after presenter on a variety of topics related to the care of patients with rheumatologic and orthopedic conditions. Nationally, she has been invited to share her insights at conferences co-sponsored by NAON and the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons.
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