Flint River Nurse Practitioners Association Pharmacology Conference 2025

A Chapter of UAPRN

Flint River NP Association Pharmacology Conference 2025

Saturday, March 15, 2025

08:00AM - 4:00PM

Location:

Creekside Center at Chehaw, 105 Chehaw Park Road, Albany, GA 31701

Target Audience:

Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, & Other Clinical Healthcare Providers

Objectives:

At the end of presentation, the participant will be able to:

1. Differentiate patient history for acute spinal pain vs chronic spinal pain.
2. Describe and intervene in any side effects, adverse effects, precautions and monitoring of pharmacological interventions specific to spinal pain.
3. Identify warning signs the need to refer to spinal surgeon when previous pharmacological modalities have failed.
4. Ability to diagnosis Major Depressive Disorder (MDD).
5. Identifying proper Medic*tion management of MDD.
6. Recognizing when to use adjunctive Medic*tion treatment.
7. Identifying proper antipsychotics as adjunctive medications for MDD.
8. Review the focuses of Palliative Care.
9. Discuss when to get Palliative Care involved.
10. Describe common symptoms alleviated by Palliative Care.
11. Discuss medications commonly used for Symptom Management.
12. Familiarize with the CDC’s Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship.
13. Differentiate the class and method of action of various medications used to treat different Orthopedic diagnoses.
14. Identify and apply concepts for initiation, monitoring and discontinuing medications used to treat Orthopedic disorders.
15. Describe and intervene in any side effects, adverse effects, precautions and monitoring of Pharmacological interventions.
16. Interpret recommended infectious disease diagnostic and laboratory test results.
17. Identify appropriate antibiotic treatment options for common outpatient infections.
18. Implement antibiotic stewardship strategies in their practices.
19. Review the history behind the development of low-dose CT scan as the only acceptable form of lung cancer screening.
20. Differentiate between those patients that qualify for screening and those that do not.
21. Recognize the importance of screening from an outcomes-based perspective.
22. Recognize what symptoms/conditions disqualify a patient from participating in lung cancer screening.

A G E N D A

08:00AM – 08:15AM REGISTRATION (Continental Breakfast)

08:15AM – 08:30AM WELCOME

Angela Bullard, FNP-C & Dori Stempinski, AGNP-C

08:30AM – 09:30AM SESSION 1

Assessment and Care of Acute Spinal Pain in the Primary Care Setting – Henry Barnard, MD

09:30AM – 10:30AM SESSION 2

Anti-psychotics for Depression – Taylor LeBlanc, DNP, PMHNP-BC, CARN-AP, FNP-C

10:30AM – 10:45AM BREAK

10:45AM – 11:45AM SESSION 3

Palliative Care: Working to Improve Quality of Life – Greg Steele, MSN, FNP-BC

11:45AM – 12:30PM LUNCH (Provided)

12:30PM – 1:30PM SESSION 4

Evaluation and Treatment of Common Orthopedic Problems – Scott McGee, MD

1:30PM – 2:30PM SESSION 5

Outpatient Infectious Disease and Antibiotic Stewardship Updates – Raybun Spelts, PharmD, MPH

2:30PM – 2:45PM BREAK

2:45PM – 3:45PM SESSION 6

Review of Lung Cancer Screening – Charles Kemp, MD

3:45PM – 4:00PM CLOSING, EVALUATION

Continuing Education:

Nurses: The Georgia Board of Nursing deems Southwest Georgia Area Health Education Center (SOWEGA-AHEC) as an approved provider for continuing education (CE). This activity is approved for 6.0 contact hours towards the continuing education competency requirement for Georgia nursing licensure renewal. No partial credit offered. Activity #2025-18.

Flint River Nurse Practitioner Association deems this activity for 6.0 contact hours which includes 6.0 pharmacology hours. No partial credit offered.

Submission of registration information, attendance and completed evaluation required for nursing continuing education certificates.

Planning Committee:

D. Michelle Huskey, MSHS, RRT-NPS, SOWEGA-AHEC, Continuing Education & Distance Learning Coordinator

Susan Darlene Boyette, FNP-BC, Retired

Angela Bullard, EMT-P, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, MSA

Jamila Cruz, MSN, FNPC, AAPHC Mirian Worthy

Beverly Fowler, NP, Phoebe Willson Hospice House

Amanda Roufs, MSN, CPNP-PC, Albany Area Primary Health Care

Dori Stempinski, MSN, AGPCNP-C, Albany Internal Medicine

Annie Walker, NP-C, PPG

Disclosures:

Planners - All planners disclosed no potential conflicts of interest at this time.

Speakers - All speakers disclosed no potential conflicts of interest at this time.

Commercial Support:

This educational activity has not received any commercial support.

Host or Publisher SOWEGA-AHEC