Continuing Education Opportunities

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

Earn FREE Online CE Credit -- Read JPHC Article Management of Pediatric Asthma: Focus on the Expert Panel Report 3, and take the test online! (Attention NAPNAP Members - please use your Member ID# and Password to login as a 'Returning User'.)

  Research on Young Children and Families - Launching the Next Decade for Policy and Practice, click here for more information.


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!

• 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.
• Pharmacotherapy and Surgery Treatment for the Severly Obese Adolescent - Once you have read the article, please click here to complete the Online Answer Enrollment Sheet. This program has been available since July 2009.
• Pharmacologic Treatment for the Core Deficits and Associated Symptoms of Autism in Children-Once you have read the article, please click here to complete the Online Answer Enrollment Sheet. This program has been available since March 2009.

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

NAPNAP Annual Conference
 NAPNAP's 2009 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 2009 conference library and earning continuing education contact hours, click here.

RSV University

RSV 201: From Community to NICU and Back Again
1.0 NAPNAP contact hours/0.5 pharmacology hours)
This course addresses important hospital- and NICU-related issues such as the anticipation of RSV outbreaks in-house, the identification of at-risk infants, the implementation of isolation protocols, the assessment of outcomes, and the appropriate hand-off of cases to the community healthcare system. RSV University is an independent educational initiative sponsored by the PeerPoint Medical Education Institute, LLC, and supported by a grant from MedImmune, Inc. Click here to participate in this online activity.

RSV 202: Long-term Sequelae of RSV Infection
(1.0 NAPNAP contact hours/0.5 pharmacology hours)
This course allows participants to understand how RSV infection can affect pulmonary function later in life, including the development of asthma, and to plan for preventive interventions to reduce short- and long-term sequelae. RSV University is an independent educational initiative sponsored by the PeerPoint Medical Education Institute, LLC, and supported by a grant from MedImmune, Inc. Click here to participate in this online activity.

RSV 203: Severe RSV Disease—Diagnosis and Management in the Pediatric Patient
(1.0 NAPNAP contact hours/0.25 pharmacology hours)
This course augments your knowledge with practical ways to manage severe RSV in hospital- and NICU-settings. Highlights will include pulmonary bacterial co-infections associated with severe RSV, practice guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and methodology for patient assessment with the Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) program. Click here to participate in this online activity.

Other Opportunities

Clinical Vaccinology Course - This course is sponsored by NFID, the Emory Department of Medicine - Division of Infectious Diseases, and the Emory Vaccine Center.  This course will be held November 13-15, 2009 in Atlanta, GA and March 12-14, 2010 in San Diego, CA. Click here to download the conference brochure.

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.

Covering the Bases: Adolescent Health
(3.6 NAPNAP contact hours/0 pharmacology hours)
New HIV and STD Training Resource Available! The American Academy of Pediatricians in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has developed an exciting new online learning module to help health care providers and public health professionals evaluate adolescent risk, communicate with youth, and recommend and conduct STD and HIV testing. Register for the course today at www.pedialink.org/cmefinder.  Take this course for free! A limited number of scholarships are available for professionals in public health and community health who work with the adolescent population. To learn more, visit http://www.aap.org/committees/PediatricAidsor call 800-433-9016 (X7879).

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.

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.