Knowledge-Based CPE Learning Activity on Antimicrobial Stewardship
Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians
2.0 Contact Hours (0.2 CEUs)
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
The Crowne Plaza at the Crossings
801 Greenwich Avenue, Warwick, RI 02886
401-732-6000
Part 1: Current Practices in Clinical Microbiology: A Review of Conventional and Molecular Clinical Microbiology with a Focus on Stewardship Opportunities
Tristan T. Timbrook, PharmD, MBA, BCPS
Post-Doctoral Outcomes in Antimicrobial Stewardship Fellow
VAMC Providence
Part 2: GAINing Ground with Newly Approved Antimicrobials
Jacob Morton, PharmD, MBA, BCPS
Post-Doctoral Outcomes in Antimicrobial Stewardship Fellow
VAMC Providence
Program Agenda:
4:15 PM Registration
5:00 PM Buffet Dinner Starts
5:15-6:15 PM Part 1
6:15-6:30 PM Break
6:30-7:30 PM Part 2
Members $25.00
Non-Members $50.00
Please register on-line only. Please do not mail in registrations. Fees are payable at sign-in or online via Paypal Online: www.rishp.org. Refund requests must be made by written request and are at the discretion of the RISHP Board of Directors.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this learning activity, pharmacist participants will be able to:
- Discuss conventional microbiologic methods for common specimens for gram positive and negative organisms.
- Explain how new molecular clinical microbiology methods fit into current practice.
- State what antimicrobial stewardship interventions can be achieved with both conventional and molecular diagnostic methods.
- Describe mandates from the Generating Antibiotics Incentives Now (GAIN) Act.
- Discuss the characteristics of recently approved antimicrobials.
- Review clinical trial data supporting the place in therapy for new antimicrobials.
Upon completion of this learning activity, pharmacy technician participants will be able to:
- Recognize adverse drug reactions to common empiric therapies that rapid diagnostics can help to reduce by limiting unneeded drug exposures.
- Explain the importance of time to appropriate antibiotic therapy and how pharmacy distribution of antibiotics play an important role in patient outcomes.
- List ways that pharmacy can perform inventory management to ensure antibiotics are on hand that meet the needs of patients based on local bacteria resistance patterns.
- Describe mandates from the Generating Antibiotics Incentives Now (GAIN) Act.
- Review brand and generic names of recently approved antimicrobials.
- Discuss pharmacologic characteristics of new antimicrobials.
