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The Nurse’s Expanding Role in Treating Psoriatic Conditions: Improving Outcomes and Patient Satisfaction

This interactive video program—tailored for nursing professionals and divided into 3 concise segments—reviews how to assess QoL, manage comorbidities, and design effective treatment approaches in patients with psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis.

Registered Nurses AANP : 1.30 AANP contact {hours}

Registered Nurses : 1.30 Nursing contact {hours}

Released: August 20, 2019

Expiration: August 19, 2020

No longer available for credit.

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Faculty

Lakshi M. Aldredge

Lakshi M. Aldredge, MSN, ANP-BC, DCNP

Nurse Practitioner
Dermatology Service
VA Portland Health Care System
Portland, Oregon

Provided by

Jointly provided by the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower and Clinical Care Options, LLC
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Supporters

Supported by educational grants from

AbbVie

Lilly

Target Audience

This program is intended for nurse practitioners, registered nurses, and other healthcare providers who care for patients with PsO and PsA.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
  • Investigate the impact of psoriatic disease on patients’ comfort level, daily functioning, and work/social activities in order to determine appropriate QoL treatment goals
  • Incorporate appropriate screening, testing, and referral protocols for comorbidities into the management of patients with psoriatic disease
  • Implement effective treatment approaches for patients with moderate to severe psoriatic disease through shared decision-making

Disclosure

The Annenberg Center assesses conflict of interest with its instructors, planners, managers, and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of CME/CE activities. All relevant conflicts of interest that are identified are thoroughly vetted by the Annenberg Center for fair balance, scientific objectivity of studies utilized in this activity, and patient care recommendations. The Annenberg Center is committed to providing its learners with high-quality CME/CE activities and related materials that promote improvements or quality in healthcare and not a specific proprietary business interest of a commercial interest.

The faculty reported the following financial relationships or relationships to products or devices they or their spouse/life partner have with commercial interests related to the content of this CME/CE activity:

Faculty Disclosure

Primary Author

Lakshi M. Aldredge, MSN, ANP-BC, DCNP

Nurse Practitioner
Dermatology Service
VA Portland Health Care System
Portland, Oregon

Lakshi M. Aldredge, MSN, ANP-BC, DCNP, has disclosed that she has received consulting fees from AbbVie, Celgene, Lilly, Novartis, Regeneron, Sanofi Genzyme, and Sun Pharma and fees for non-CME/CE services for AbbVie, Lilly, Novartis, Regeneron, Sanofi Genzyme, and Sun Pharma.

Staff Disclosure

Staff

Tiffany Hensley-McBain, PhD

Clinical Editor

Tiffany Hensley-McBain, PhD, has no relevant conflicts of interest to report.

Megan K. Murphy, PhD

Scientific Director

Megan K. Murphy, PhD, has no relevant conflicts of interest to report.

Carolyn Skowronski, PharmD

Associate Director, Scientific Services

Carolyn Skowronski, PharmD, has no relevant conflicts of interest to report.

Instructions for Credit

Accreditation Statement

Annenberg Center for Health Sciences is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Credit Designation

1.3 contact hours may be earned for successful completion of this activity.

Accreditation Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation Standards of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) through the joint providership of the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower and Clinical Care Options. The Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower is accredited by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners as an approved provider of nurse practitioner continuing education. Provider number: 040207

Credit Designation

This activity is approved for 1.3 contact hours of continuing education (which includes 0.4 hour(s) of pharmacology). Program ID # 5782

Disclosure of Unlabeled Use

The PIM planners and managers have nothing to disclose.

Charles E. Willis, Director of Continuing Education; Amanda Sewell, MBA, Manager of Continuing Education and Melissa Velasquez, Accreditation Specialist from the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower have no relevant commercial relationships to disclose.

This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The Annenberg Center, Postgraduate Institute for Medicine (PIM), Clinical Care Options, and activity supporters do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications.

The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the Annenberg Center, PIM, Clinical Care Options, and activity supporters. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

Disclaimer

Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications on dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.

Additional Information

Participation in this self-study activity should be completed in approximately 1.3 hours. To successfully complete this activity and receive credit, participants must follow these steps during the period from August 20, 2019, through August 19, 2020:

1. Register online at http://www.clinicaloptions.com.
2. Read the target audience, learning objectives, and faculty disclosures.
3. Study the educational activity online or printed out.
4. Submit answers to the posttest questions and evaluation questions online.

You must receive a test score of at least 65% and respond to all evaluation questions to receive a certificate. After submitting the evaluation, you may access your online certificate by selecting the certificate link on the posttest confirmation page. Records of all CME/CE activities completed can be found on the "CME/CE Manager" page. There are no costs/fees for this activity.

Program Medium

This program has been made available online.


Goal


The goal of this activity is to improve nurses’ competence in caring for patients with psoriatic conditions in order to achieve optimal clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction.