**TECH: D.C. 2023 Pharmacy License Renewal CE Program


This program has two general sessions and two additional concurrent sessions: You can choose one or both of the two general sessions. However, the system only allows you to choose ONE of the two concurrent sessions since both sessions are running concurrently. 
 
GENERAL SESSIONS (You can choose ONE or BOTH topics since they are run at different times)
                   1. Cultural Competency Focused on Patients or Clients Who Identify as LGBTQ. 
                   2. Medication And Dispensing Errors
 
Please choose the topics in only ONE of these two sessions since they both run concurrently.
You can choose topics in Session I or Session II but not both. 
 
SESSION I:  1: Responsible Opioid Prescribing and Effective Pain Management.
                     2. Implicit Bias, Cultural Competence and Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) In Health and Health Care.
                     3. Smoking, Vaping, And Tobacco (Including Dangers, Smoking Cessation, And Non-Smoke Tobacco Products)
 
SESSION II. 1. Vaccinations (Including Legal Requirements and Appropriate Exemptions)
                     2. HIV/AIDs & Opportunistic Infection
                     3. Nutrition and Obesity Prevention
 
 

Date: Feb 11, 2023 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM

Fee

$65.00

CE Hours

10.00

CE Units

1.000

Registration closes on Apr 08, 2023 01:00 AM

Activity Type

Knowledge

Target Audience(s)

Pharmacy Technicians
Physician Assistants
Pharmacy Students

Accreditation(s)

Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education
Accreditation Statement: Howard University College of Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

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Objectives

  • Identify limitations to current methods of assessing renal function
  • Recognize challenges to identifying renal function in transgender patients
  • Explain potential solutions to reduce the gap in providing care for transgender patients

Speaker(s)/Author(s)

Jesse Rungkitwattanakul, Pharm.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy, Howard University

Activity Number

0010-0000-23-004-L01-T
Date: 02/11/23
Time: 08:00 AM - 10:00 AM

CE Hours

2.00
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Objectives

  • Describe patients' parameters to whom the CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain - United States, 2022 apply.
  • Identify potential risks and harms of opioid use.
  • Explain communication strategies with clinicians, patients, and caregivers to improve the effects and safety of pain treatment to reduce risks associated with opioid pain therapy.

Speaker(s)/Author(s)

BEVERLY MIMIS, PHARM.D

Activity Number

0010-0000-23-006-L08-T
Date: 02/11/23
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

CE Hours

1.00
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Objectives

  • Explain the public health impacts of implicit bias, culture, and language.
  • Identify the knowledge, attitude, and self-efficacy necessary for cultural competence when dealing with a culturally and linguistically diverse patient population.
  • Explain the national standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS).
  • Describe strategies for promoting positive healthcare experience for diverse patient populations to ensure CLAS.

Speaker(s)/Author(s)

Nkem P. Nonyel, PharmD, MPH, BCPS

Activity Number

0010-0000-23-007-L01-T
Date: 02/11/23
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

CE Hours

1.00
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Objectives

  • Explain the negative impact of cigarette smoking on death rates, cancer, heart disease, stroke and overall health care utilization and cost.
  • Describe the role of the Pharmacist in designing different smoking cessation programs
  • Definition of vaping per AHA (American Heart Association), and long-term effects and the risks associated with it.

Speaker(s)/Author(s)

Patricia Noumedem, Pharm.D., RPh, PharmD
Associate Professor, Howard University, College of Pharmacy

Activity Number

0010-0000-23-008-L01-T
Date: 02/11/23
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

CE Hours

1.00
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Objectives

  • Describe current knowledge of vaccination in hemodialysis patients
  • Recognize challenges in combating vaccine hesitancy
  • Describe potential recommendations to increase vaccine uptake

Speaker(s)/Author(s)

Jesse Rungkitwattanakul, Pharm.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy, Howard University

Activity Number

0010-0000-23-009-L06-T
Date: 02/11/23
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

CE Hours

1.00
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Speaker(s)/Author(s)

Nicholas Rebold, PharmD, BCIDP, AAHIVP, MPH
Clinical Assistant Professor

Activity Number

0010-0000-23-010-L02-T
Date: 02/11/23
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

CE Hours

1.00
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Objectives

  • Identify the Cause of Obesity
  • List the Risk factors of obesity
  • Describe the Management of obesity by diets
  • Explain the Pharmacotherapy for obesity
  • List Drugs in the pipeline for obesity

Speaker(s)/Author(s)

Padmamalini Baskaran, M. Pharm., Ph.D.

Activity Number

0010-0000-23-011-L01-T
Date: 02/11/23
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

CE Hours

1.00
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Objectives

  • Explain an understanding of the levels at which medication errors occur beginning with ordering by the provider to the patient obtaining the medication.
  • Describe the most common medication errors that occur during prescribing, dispensing, and administering medications.
  • Explain possible solutions to address medication errors in different pharmacy settings.

Speaker(s)/Author(s)

Jacqueise M. Unonu, PharmD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Howard University College of Pharmacy

Activity Number

0010-0000-23-005-L05-T
Date: 02/11/23
Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM

CE Hours

2.00
Registration Closed