Mississippi Pharmacy CE Requirement 15-Hour Package
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
- Educating Patients: Creating Teaching Moments in Practice 4Course release date: 12/21/2022
About the Course
Effective education is essential to help patients and family gain knowledge. All healthcare professionals (HCPs) can identify teaching opportunities to assess and provide effective education. The purpose of this course is to provide HCPs with current evidence-based information to help them learn and apply skills and practice for effective patient and family teaching in a variety of settings. - Prescribing Strategies for Older Adults 3
Course release date: 10/09/2023
About the Course
This course will explore the intricacies of pharmacological principles and their profound impact on choosing the perfect medications enhancing the learners' ability to effectively apply pharmacologic principles to the medication selection process for the older adult. It will examine the age-related changes influencing medication effectiveness and adverse drug effects. The course addresses the challenges and complexities of medication management in the aging population, considering factors such as disease burdens, cognitive and organ system decline, and social determinants of health.
- The Pharmacist's Role in the Opioid Crisis, 2nd Edition 6
Course Release: 1/9/2024
About the course
This course will provide pharmacists practicing in healthcare systems and community pharmacy settings an overview of contemporary considerations for ways that the opioid crisis intersects with pharmacy practice. This course will provide pharmacists with a history of the current state of the opioid crisis and how pharmacy practice has expanded to meet patient and community needs as well as ethical dimensions of the opioid crisis and the role of social determinants of health in opioid-related disparities. This course will provide pharmacists with an understanding of the disease state of opioid use disorder and how opioids affect the brain, how the pharmacist can be supportive of patients with opioid use disorder to reduce stigma and facilitate treatment-seeking, and the benefits of medications for opioid use disorder; participants will review the 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain (2022 Clinical Practice Guideline).
- The Pharmacologic Management of Anxiety in Adults 2Release Date: 7/10/2023About the CourseAnxiety disorders are the most commonly diagnosed psychiatric disorders, with an estimated 264 million persons globally suffering from an anxiety disorder. It’s estimated that 19.1% of adults in the United States (U.S.) are affected by at least one anxiety disorder; this number increases to 31.9% in U.S. adolescents. Common anxiety disorders include generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), panic disorder (PD), specific phobias, agoraphobia, social anxiety disorder (SAD), and separation anxiety disorder. This course reviews the diagnosis and pharmacological management of anxiety disorders, as well as medications which can cause or exacerbate anxiety symptoms.