pharmacist and patient-centered diabetes care

Next Offering:  Sunday, May 3, 1:00PM - 5:00PM

Location:  Embassy Suites by Hilton Phoenix Biltmore, 2630 E. Camelback Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85016

Program Information:

Description: APhA's The Pharmacist & Patient-Centered Diabetes Care Certificate Training Program is an educational experience designed to equip pharmacists with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to provide effective, evidence-based diabetes care. The program provides comprehensive instruction in current diabetes concepts and standards of care and incorporates case studies and hands-on skills training focused on the situations most likely to be encountered-as well as the services most needed-in community and ambulatory care practice settings. Participants will gain experience evaluating and adjusting drug therapy regimens for patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, counseling patients about lifestyle interventions, analyzing and interpreting self-monitoring of blood glucose results, and assessing the overall health status of patients to identify needed monitoring and interventions

Activity Type: Application and Practiced-Based

Target Audience: Pharmacists

Program Goals:

The goal of The Pharmacist and Patient-Centered Diabetes Care is to teach the pharmacist how to integrate diabetes education and management into practice. This overriding goal incorporates the goal of pharmaceutical care, which is to ensure that patients make the best use of their medications and achieve the desired therapeutic outcomes. Specific program goals are to:

• Provide comprehensive instruction on current standards of care for patients with diabetes.
• Increase pharmacists' ability to apply pharmacotherapeutic information and serve as the drug therapy expert on the diabetes health care team.
• Refresh pharmacists' knowledge of the pathophysiology of diabetes and the acute and long‐term complications of the disease.
• Familiarize pharmacists with important concepts in nutrition, exercise, and weight control that contribute to optimal diabetes care.
• Provide training on the use of diabetes-related devices and physical assessments involved with optimal diabetes care.
• Describe business opportunities and roles for pharmacists in improving health outcomes for patients with diabetes.

Live Training Seminar Learning Objectives:

• Apply key concepts of diabetes care, including selection of appropriate treatment approaches, to patient cases.
• Demonstrate effective communication strategies for educating patients with diabetes to manage their condition.
• Demonstrate how to perform a fingerstick for assessing blood glucose levels and inject medications with syringes or pens.
• Discuss the clinical value of CGM for patients living with diabetes
• Evaluate data from various blood glucose logs, including those generated by continuous glucose monitoring.

For a complete list of learning objectives and for all APhA accreditation information and policies, please visit APhA's website, http://www.pharmacist.com/pharmacist-patient-centered-diabetes-care.

Program Completion Requirements:

To earn a Continuing Pharmacy Eduction (CPE) Credit and/or a Certificate of Achievement, participants must meet all the following requirments:

1. Read the self-study modules in their entirety and successfully complete the self-study assessment.  A score of 70% or better is required.  Participants may have a maximum of two attempts to achieve a passing score.
2. Attend a live training seminar offering and successfully complete the open-book final exam.  A score of 70% or better is required.  Participants may have a maximum of two attempts to achieve a passing score.
3. The live training seminar includes demonstrating competency in blood pressure testing, self-injection techniques, diabetic foot exam, and blood glucose testing, followed up with online evaluation and assessment.

Continuing Pharmacy Education (CPE) Information:

Activity Type: Application and Practiced Based

Target Audience: Pharmacists in all practice settings

Learning Level: 3

Successful completion of the entire program will result in 8 contact hours of CPE credit (0.8 CEU).

• 4 hours (0.4 CEU) is awarded for completion of the self-study learning portion | ACPE UAN: 0202-0000-23-436-H01-P
• 4 hours (0.4 CEU) is awarded for completion of the live training seminar | ACPE UAN: 0202-9999-23-437-L01-P). 

Once credit is claimed, Statements of Credit will be available online within 24 hours on participant's CPE Monitor profile at www.nabp.net. The Certificate of Achievement will be available online upon successful completion of the necessary activity requirements on the participant's "My Training" page on www.pharmacist.com.

For more information on the program curriculum or agenda, contact the Certificate Training Department by e-mailing ctp@aphanet.org or calling 202-429-7512. Pharmacist and Patient-Centered Diabetes Care Certificate Training Program was developed by the American Pharmacists Association.

The American Pharmacists Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. For all APhA accreditation information and policies please visit www.pharmacist.com/education.

Registration Fees:

Refund Policy:

No refunds will be available for an APhA Program.

AzPA reserves the right to cancel any activity due to insufficient pre-registration. In this case, all individuals pre-registered are notified and issued a full refund.