Slowing Kidney Disease Progression Course
Offering free CE for Pharmacists, Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners.
Overview:
How can we optimally slow progression of chronic kidney disease? In these modules, we dive into the topic and the role pharmacists play in value-based care for patients with CKD. You will learn how to design prevention, treatment, and patient education approaches using the latest evidence-based practices from experts in the field. These modules emphasize patient-centered care and practical strategies to implement drug therapy regimens.
Overall Course Objectives
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Adopt patient-centered medication management strategies to address CKD progression in the context of a multidisciplinary team using the pharmacist patient care process framework (collect, assess, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate, and document activities).
- Assess kidney function for staging CKD and drug dosing using contemporary methods for estimating glomerular filtration rate with consideration of the utility and limitations of each method.
- Design prevention, treatment, and patient education strategies for slowing chronic kidney disease progression that incorporate evidence-based pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatment.
- Create care plans that address disparities in CKD to achieve pharmacoequity.
- Construct strategies to address the common clinical controversies in the management of cardiometabolic complications in a patient with CKD to optimize medication management.
- Describe barriers to medication adherence and facilitate strategies to improve medication adherence in patients with CKD.
- Initiate appropriate deprescribing measures to reduce medication burden and/or harm in patients with kidney disease.
- Identify and prioritize opportunities for pharmacists to optimize health care and provide comprehensive medication management (CMM) for patients in value-based payment systems.