Pennsylvania 30 Hour Pharmacy CE Requirement Package
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
- Addiction Medicine Part 2: Alcohol 2Course Release Date: 10/21/22
Alcohol use disorder is a serious national health problem in the United States. It is estimated that more than 14 million American adults had an alcohol use disorder in 2019, as well as 414,000 adolescents aged 12 to 17. There is a clear need for improvement in the treatment of alcohol use disorder; this course serves to review the recognition, diagnosis, and treatment of alcohol use disorder and alcohol withdrawal.
- 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. - Pain Management: Evidence-Based Guidance for Prescribing Opioids 5
Course release date: 6/12/2023
About the Course
This course will provide a general review of federal and state-controlled substance regulations and the prescribing practices for controlled substances, including drug diversion. However, the focus is on clinical safety considerations when prescribing non-cancer-related opioid medications for acute/chronic pain in adults.
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors for Pharmacy Professionals 2
Course Release: 4/1/2024
About the course
This educational program is designed to accomplish at least two important goals: first to provide examples of critical potential medication errors, and secondly to offer mechanisms that pharmacy professionals can take to intervene in these mishaps and enhance patient care. In addition to offering these critical examples and potential solutions, two case studies are included to help put some of the ideas into realistic scenarios similar to those that may be encountered in contemporary pharmacy practice. Evidence-based practice information from current peer-reviewed literature is also included for context and ideas for pharmacists to consider in efforts to improve their practice appear throughout the program. Lastly, a post-test is included at the end of the program to test your understanding of the material.
- Pennsylvania Mandatory Child Abuse Recognition and Reporting (Renewal Licensure) 2Course release date: 1/20/2021
About the Course:
This course fulfills the Pennsylvania Healthcare Professionals 2-year licensure renewal continuing education requirement for 2 contact hours of Child Abuse Recognition and Reporting. The course provides the details of the identification, assessment, and reporting of child abuse and reviews Pennsylvania's state laws regarding child abuse and neglect. - Pharmacotherapy to Assist with Smoking Cessation 3Release Date: 1/26/2021
About the Course:
After completing this course, pharmacists will be able to help select first-line pharmacotherapy to assist smokers in quitting, educate smokers on potential adverse effects of these pharmacotherapies, and provide counseling that includes how and when to properly take the medication - Shingles Disease Process and Vaccination for Pharmacists 2Release Date: 01/17/2022
About the Course:
Shingles causes a characteristic rash typically localized in one area of the body. Serious complications, which often depend on the rash location, can arise, such as pain that persists after the rash has cleared and even vision or hearing loss. Treatment typically focuses on antiviral therapy and symptom control. Shingles can be prevented through vaccination, which is recommended for adults over 50 since the immune system weakens with age. This course serves to review the disease process of shingles and the use of vaccinations to prevent shingles. - The Essentials of Infection Prevention 4
Course release date: 7/10/2023
About the Course
The COVID-19 pandemic made all healthcare workers acutely aware of infection prevention and control measures. The pandemic has highlighted the need for ongoing education to maintain a knowledge and skill level appropriate for implementing strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections and to prepare for the next pandemic. Understanding where reservoirs are harboring pathogens and strategies to prevent transmission in healthcare settings is critical. This course will examine best practices for infection prevention, such as hand hygiene, personal protective equipment, transmission-based precautions, cleaning and disinfection, and injection safety
- 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).