Date:
Monday, August 16, 2010
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Time:
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM Eastern Time
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Location:
www.FreeCE.com and PharmCon Studios
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Credits:
1
Live
Contact Hours
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Target Audience:
Nursing, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians
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Program Overview:
Pharmacists can play a pro-active role in the treatment of bipolar disorder and the adherence problems associated with the illness. Pharmacists must understand the underlying condition, potential of currently available treatment options (along with their probable results and possible side effects) and understand the need to educate patients and family members on drug treatment strategies and the long-term medication and adherence problems commonly encountered with bipolar patients
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Nursing Educational Objectives:
- Review the epidemiology, etiology, and pathophysiology of bipolar disorder
- Compare and contrast the pharmacological approaches to the management of bipolar disorder to include efficacy, safety, and roles of available treatments
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Pharmacists Educational Objectives:
- Review the epidemiology, etiology, and pathophysiology of bipolar disorder
- Compare and contrast the pharmacological approaches to the management of bipolar disorder to include efficacy, safety, and roles of available treatments
- Review the pharmacist’s role in counseling patients on the lifestyle changes, drug treatment strategies and medication adherence to improve the quality of life and long-term maintenance of bipolar patients
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Pharmacy Technicians Educational Objectives:
- Review the epidemiology, etiology, and pathophysiology of bipolar disorder
- Compare and contrast the pharmacological approaches to the management of bipolar disorder to include efficacy, safety, and roles of available treatments
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Repeat Presentation:
This Presentation Was last given on 7/21/2010
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Activity Type:
Knowledge
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Accreditation:
Nursing: N-603 Pharmacists: 0798-0000-10-034-L01-P Pharmacy Technicians: 0798-0000-10-034-L01-T
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PharmCon is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. In order to obtain a Certificate of Credit, attendees must answer poll questions and a program evaluation. Attendees may immediately print their Certificate of Credit or leave them stored on the web site. |
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About The Speaker: |
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Elizabeth Montagnese
Dr. Montagnese received her medical degree at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She completed her general psychiatry and child psychiatry training at the Penn State University Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Dr. Montagnese has been in private practice in the Central Pennsylvania area since 2000. She has also served as medical director for six years at a nonprofit community mental health center. She has worked in inner city schools, juvenile justice facilities and outpatient community mental health settings in the Central Pennsylvania region. She currently provides consultation to several schools and also to an adolescent drug and alcohol treatment facility. Dr. Montagnese sits on the board of the Central Pennsylvania Institute for Mental Health. This agency serves to meet the needs for training and education of mental health providers as well as the lay public. Dr. Montagnese also consults with CERMUSA, a subsidiary of St. Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania. This relationship serves to meet the needs of various medical professionals through web-based seminars for continuing medical education credits
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Financial Support By:
PharmCon
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Refund Policy
PharmCon provides full refunds of paid amounts if cancellations are made more than 24 hours prior to the scheduled time of the event and the request is submitted by email to: admin@pharmcon.com. Cancellations after that time will forfeit their registration fees.
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Documents:
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Status:
Registration Closed - Past Registration Date
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Computer sharing is not permitted due to ACPE guidelines on program monitoring. Credit is given to one user per computer. |
