CE Opportunities:

 

**Please Note: CE activities, posttests, evaluations and CE certificates can now be accessed through the NPWH Online CE Center. Please click here to visit the CE Center. Once you are on the login page, enter your username and password and begin exploring all of the wonderful courses NPWH has to offer. If you do not have a username and password, please click here, and then click "Register" next to the "Login" botton. 

 

HPV Update: What Nurse Practitioners Need to Know
This e-newsletter series is based on a roundtable dialogue among clinicians held at the 2011 annual meeting of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health. It describes challenges to patient vaccination and discusses solutions implemented by nurse practitioners in various practice settings to improve patient outcomes.
Part 1: What's New in HPV Vaccination
Part 2: Practical Strategies for Helping Patients and Parents Understand the Importance of HPV Vaccination

“Heavy Menstrual Bleeding: Update on Best Practices and New Options”  Test your diagnostic and patient management skills with this educational activity.  Click here to read the enewsletter, but certification has expired so post tests and evaluations are no longer accepted.

"Individualizing Contraceptive Care: Using the 2010 US Medical Eligibility Criteria Guidelines".  Get credit here.

"Individualizing Contraceptive Care: Contraception Counseling: Enhancing Knowldge, Satisfaction, and Adherence in Birth Control".  Get credit here.

"The Role of the Clinician in Preventing Cancer: Hereditary Cancer Assessment as an Emerging Standard of Practice" Access the supplement here and get credit here.

"Updates in Contraception: Issues of Patient Adherence and Need for Emergency Contraception" E-Newsletter Series
      E-Newsletter 1: Practical pearls to improve patient adherence to contraceptive agents
      E-Newsletter 2: Overcoming barriers to effective utilization of emergency contraception
      Get this information in a FREE podcast on iTunes! Click here to download it.  Get free CEs for the podcast here.
      Monograph: Issues of patient adherence and need for emergency contraception

"Mood Disorders in Women" E-Newsletter Series
      E-Newsletter 1: Pregnancy, mood disorders, and medications
      E-Newsletter 2: Pharmacologic agents and pregnancy: Managing mood disorders in the primary care setting
      E-Newsletter 3: Postpartum depression, breastfeeding, and other postdelivery concerns
      E-Newsletter 4: Gonadal steroids and mood disorders: PMS and PMDD
      E-Newsletter 5: Depression and the menopausal transition: Transcript of a presentation on depression in midlife women
      E-Newsletter 6: Practical issues for nurse practitioners

"Diagnosing and Treating Anxiety and Mood Disorders in Women: Four Case Studies" Find the article here. Get credit here.

“Using New ACR Criteria for Diagnosing Fibromyalgia, Assessing Comorbidities, and Providing Effective Management” e-newsletter series
To access the articles, please follow this link.  The post tests for all three e-newsletters are below.
·         Case 1: Unexplained achiness and fatigue, stress and strain: How would you evaluate and manage a patient with these symptoms?
·         Case 2: Chronic pain, GI symptoms, and sleep disturbances: How can you sort through a range of symptoms for effective patient care?
·         Case 3: Menopausal symptoms: Are they at the root of this patient's health issues?

Fibromyalgia Key Point Series. (click here to view enewsletters)

     ·       Installment One

     ·       Installment Two

     ·       Installment Three

     ·       Installment Four

     ·       Installment Five

     ·       Installment Six

 

“Fibromyalgia: Practical Strategies for Diagnosis and Management” enewsletters series post tests (click here to view enewsletters)

      And check out the podcasts of the original material on iTunes!  Click here to download them for free.

·        E-Newsletter 1: From Tender Points to a New Diagnostic Paradigm for Fibromyalgia

·        E-Newsletter 2: Diagnosing Fibromyalgia 

·        E-Newsletter 3: A Team Approach to Patient Management

·        E-Newsletter 4: Case Study: A 30-Year-Old Single Mother Thinks She Is Experiencing Early Menopause

·        E-Newsletter 5: Case Study: A 54-Year-Old Menopausal Woman With a History of Rheumatoid Arthritis Receives Treatment, Yet Continues to Experience Pain, Tenderness, and Insomnia

·        E-Newsletter 6: Case Study: A 68-Year-Old Woman Has Increasing Difficulty With Pain and Mobility

  

 

Informational Activities (non-CE) 

·         Migraine 101

·        Managing Vaginal Atrophy

·         Women and Insomnia

·         Progesterone Use

·         Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder

·    Attention and Intervention: Responding to Vaginal Changes of Menopause

      ·    Fibromyalgia: Practical Strategies for Diagnosis and Management

   

Information Regarding Certification