Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Current Guidelines for Treatment & Rehabilitation of Patients
1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
1 Nursing Contact Hour
1 Hour Pharmacy CE
Release date: January 1st, 2009
Expiration date: December 31st, 2011
Faculty:
Kathleen Davis, MD
Board Certified Internal Medicine
Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic
Target audience and Cost:
This course is open to all healthcare providers and is targeted to primary care providers - Physicians, PAs, NPs, RNs, and Pharmacists. There is no cost to participants.
Funded through an educational grant from Boehringer Ingelheim and Pfizer.
Accreditation:
The Foundation for Care Management ( FCM ) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
FCM designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ * Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The Foundation for Care Management is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Colorado Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center ’s Commission on Accreditation. Approval period: July 1, 2009— June 30, 2012 . Provider # FCM -0612.
 The Foundation for Care Management is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. Program # 347-000-09-008-H01-P
* This CE activity is knowledge based.
Objectives:
At the completion of this course, the healthcare professional will be able to:
- Describe the economic and human cost of COPD in the United States and in the world.*
- Identify factors that contribute to the development and exacerbation of COPD.*
- Describe measures to prevent COPD.*
- Discuss evidence based medical and physical therapy for decreasing morbidity and mortality from COPD.*
- Establish a best practices office or hospital based modified pulmonary rehabilitation program including utilizing referral resources where available.
- Conduct an outcome study of changes in the attendees’ COPD patients’ exercise tolerance, ability to do activities of daily living, and quality of life using three and six month follow up data
- Implement a clinical practice assessment of their office or hospital based COPD treatment and rehabilitation program.
- Function as a member of the healthcare team to effect better patient outcomes.*
* Objectives appropriate for Pharmacists
What you must do to obtain credit for this course.
1. Review faculty disclosure shown below.
2. Read the objectives shown above.
3. Review the Privacy statement
4. Take the Pre-test.
5. Listen to the lecture and view the slides.
6. Print out the Patient Data Collection Form and the Patient Survey Form.
7. Review the references.
8. Take the Post-test and complete the course evaluation.
9. Print your certificate.
Kathleen Davis MD Biosketch
Dr. Kathleen Davis is a Board Certified internal medicine physician with over 20 years experience in clinical medicine, health education, and medical practice management. She has worked in various health care settings in the Untied States, Uganda, Guatemala and Laos . Dr. Davis earned her Diploma in Tropical Diseases and Hygiene from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 2007. From 1996-2005, she was a clinical attending and Co-director of Outpatient Graduate Medical Education for Madigan Army Medical Center . Presently she is a consultant in health education, and an attending physician at the Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic (Toppenish).
Disclosures:
Dr. Kathleen Davis has no financial interest in any products or manufacturers mentioned.
FCM's Planning Committee has no significant financial interest in any of the products or manufacturers mentioned.
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