Continuing Education Opportunities

JPHC CE Articles | NAPNAP Annual Conference | AAP | Other Opportunities | Human Subjects Training

Earn FREE Online CE Credit -- Read JPHC Article 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic, and take the test online! (Attention NAPNAP Members - please use your Member ID# and Password to login as a 'Returning User'.)

JPHC CE Articles 

Journal of Pediatric Health Care (JPHC) Continuing Education Articles
(1.0 contact hours/1.0 pharmacology hours)

Please visit the JPHC website for these opportunities!

• 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic - Once you have read this article, please  click here to complete the Online Answer Enrollment Sheet.  This program has been available since June 2010.
• Management of Pediatric Asthma: Focus on the Expert Panel Report 3 - Once you have read the article, please click here to complete the Online Answer Enrollment Sheet. This program has been available since November 2009.

Attention NAPNAP Members - please use your Member ID# and Password to login as a 'Returning User'.

NAPNAP Annual Conference

  NAPNAP's 2010 Annual Conference is online! A library of many sessions from the conference (including the live audio and the presentation slides) is available.  This benefit is FREE to conference attendees and available for purchase for those who did not attend the conference.  For instructions on purchasing and accessing NAPNAP’s 2010 conference library and earning continuing education contact hours, click here.

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

AAP Pediatric Coding Webinars presented by the American Academy of Pediatrics
The American Academy of Pediatrics Pediatric Coding Webinar series includes six 1-hour live events filled with pediatric-specific insights, tips and strategies from leading pediatric coding experts. Here is the help you need to meet the most complex pediatric coding and billing challenges. This program is approved for 1.0 NAPNAP contact hours of which 0 contain pharmacology (Rx) content per the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners Continuing Education Guidelines.  For more information, visit www.aap.org/webinars/coding.

PEDIALINK

Covering the Bases: Adolescent Health (3.6 NAPNAP contact hours/0 pharmacology hours) 
Do you need help talking to youth about STDs and HIV? Now there's help!  Covering the Bases: Adolescent Sexual Health was developed by the AAP in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Explore current STD trends, learn about consent and confidentiality laws in your state, and review the latest CDC recommendations and guidelines on STD and HIV testing and treatment.  Enhance your learning with case studies, video clips, interactive exercises, and quizzes, as well as long-term access to many valuable resources.  Register today at www.pedialink.org.  Take this course for free! A limited number of scholarships are available for professionals in public health and community health who work with adolescents. For more details, visit http://www.aap.org/committees/PediatricAids or call 800-433-9016 (X7879).

 
EQIPP

EQIPP Nutritional Assessment for the Healthy and Chronically Ill Child discusses the importance of monitoring growth and nutrition as an indicator of the overall health of the child.  EQIPP will demonstrate how to examine documentation and management of patient’s nutritional status. EQIPP allows you to evaluate your practice online, using tools to collect and analyze practice data over time to document improvement. By providing tools and strategies to make small cycles of change, providers can improve practice efficiency and patient care.  Explore the science of nutrition, growth measures, and nutritional interventions, including tools, techniques, and resources for establishing healthy eating practices, laying the foundation for lifelong health. This program is approved for 30 NAPNAP contact hours of which 0 contain pharmacology (Rx) content per the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners Continuing Education Guidelines. Please Note: 20 of these credits are awarded upon completion of Performance Improvement activities.

Enroll online at www.eqipp.org. 

Other Opportunities

Clinical Vaccinology Course - This course is sponsored by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID), the Emory Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, and the Emory Vaccine Center. This course  will target pediatricians, primary care physicians, family physicians, pharmacists, internists, public health officials, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and others involved with the clinical aspects of vaccinology and will be held on November 5-7, 2010 in Bethesda, Maryland and repeated on March 4-6, 2011, in Chicago, IL.   It is approved for 16.75 ANCC contact hours.   For more information, please visit the website .

MEDSCAPE
Visit http://cme.medscape.com/cme/nurses for free nursing continuing education provided by Medscape.  Medscape is not registered as a NAPNAP approved provider, but is accredited by ANCC to provide continuing nursing education.

Reach Out & Read CME Course 
is now available from the Boston University School of Medicine. Reach Out and Read (ROR) is a national non-profit organization that promotes early literacy by giving new books to children and advice to parents about the importance of reading aloud in pediatric exam rooms across the nation. Doctors and nurses know that growing up healthy means growing up with books. The ROR program provides the tools to help promote children's developmental skills and later school success. For more information, visit http://www.bu.edu/cme/ror/.

Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit (PEHT) Training Module 
This interactive Web-based module introduces users to the basics of environmental health and explains the purpose and best use of Toolkit materials. It offers health-care providers detailed examples about how to best deliver anticipatory guidance on a range of environmental health issues, especially during well-child visits.  Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) for Nurses: 1.5 contact hours.  For more information, visit  http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/emes/health_professionals/pediatrics.html.

Championing School-Located Influenza Immunization
Developed by the National Association of School Nurses
This program includes an overview of influenza and articles on the role of school nurses and public health departments in school-located influenza immunization.  Click here to download the CE supplement. CNE contact hours can be redeemed online at: https://www.nasn.org/Default.aspx?tabid=111.  Supported by an educational grant from Medimmune.