Incorporating the Newest CLSI Recommendations for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing into your Stewardship Activities

This annual webcast that provides updates on hot topics related to antibiotic stewardship and microbiological testing. This year’s webcast includes recent CLSI antimicrobial susceptibility testing updates for gram positive/gram negative bacteria and Candida species.

Product Quality Verification of Dietary Supplements

Patients have thousands of dietary supplement options available to them and many will ask for help in deciding. This activity is designed to support your counseling efforts by examining regulation with specific emphasis on the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), and more.

Diagnostics and Antimicrobial Stewardship: How Can We Elevate?

This presentation will focus on the challenges of AMS in European and low/middle income settings, and explain how rapid diagnostics and biomarkers can help to achieve the goals of AMS. The utility of biomarkers for AMS will be examined with an emphasis on the use of PCT.

Emerging Practices in the Management of Community-Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia

This continuing education activity will explore the current prevalence and burden of CABP, discuss practice considerations in the use of rapid diagnostics, and examine studies and data surrounding the use of antibiotics currently available as well as emerging agents in the pipeline.

Examining Strategies to Manage Antimicrobial Resistance Mechanisms

This activity will discuss mechanisms of resistance, management strategies for highlighted community and hospital-acquired infectious diseases with the most resistance-related concerns, and substitute therapeutic options when guideline or protocol-directed therapies are found to be ineffective.

Expert Updates in Gram Negative Resistance

In this two-part activity, subject matter experts will discuss the knowledge and practice surrounding the use of antibiotics for gram-negative infections.

Opioid Stewardship® - A Certificate Program for Healthcare Professionals

The Opioid Stewardship Certificate Program is an activity for clinicians impacted by the opioid crisis. It emphasizes a health care team approach to develop a knowledgebase regarding opioids, pain management, OUD and skills to impact the appropriate use of opioids in healthcare and our communities.

Opioid Stewardship® - A Certificate Program for Healthcare Professionals (PART 1 ONLY)

The Opioid Stewardship Certificate Program is an activity for clinicians impacted by the opioid crisis. This option includes the home study content (part 1) only.

Product Quality Verification of Dietary Supplements

Patients have thousands of dietary supplement options available to them and many will ask for help in deciding. This activity is designed to support your counseling efforts by examining regulation with specific emphasis on the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), and more.

Sexual Harassment: Awareness and Prevention in the Healthcare Workplace (meets requirement for IL, CA*, DE, ME, NY)

This activity will assist in increasing awareness of what constitutes sexual harassment, the impact of harassment, what to do if you are harassed or a witness, the responsibilities of the employer, and the protections that are in place for those reporting harassment.

Vaccine Uptake in Underserved Populations: Vaccine Hesitancy and Cultural Competency

This activity will introduce background knowledge on the clinical impact of low vaccinationrates in minorities, social influences that guide individual vaccine decisions, andhelp to improve comfort in identifying and counseling vulnerable underserved populations.