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Activity Date: 04/25/2018

AAPP 2018 registration is closed.

Session Time and Location

The live session is complete.

Target Audience

This course is designed for pharmacists, nurse practitioners or other healthcare professionals involved in the comprehensive medication management of psychiatric and/or neurological patients.

Session Summary

A major challenge in developed countries is the increasing number of older adult patients. Polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medications in older individuals are associated with adverse drug events, death, and impaired physical and cognitive function, falls, and hospitalization. While tools exist to warn practitioners of potentially harmful medications for the elderly, there is little direction on how to remove these medications from an older adults’ medication profiles. Deprescribing is a relatively new practice that has been evaluated as a method to minimize polypharmacy and improve outcomes in older adult patients. As pharmacists, awareness of deprescribing, the potential benefits and risks, as well as ways to implement this practice can help to improve the way care is provider to our older adult patients.

Course Requirements

To receive ACPE credit for the live session at the Annual Meeting, you must:

  • Sign in (or create a FREE account).
  • Register for this course.
  • Attend and participate in the entire session and reflect upon its teachings.
  • Complete the evaluation at the end of the activity.
  • Provide the necessary details in your profile to ensure correct reporting by AAPP to CPE Monitor.

This course will be provided at the CPNP 2018 Annual Meeting, April 22-25, 2018. Upon successful completion, ACPE credit is reported immediately to CPE Monitor although transcripts can be retrieved by participants online at https://aapp.org/mycpnp/transcript/acpe.

Faculty Information and Disclosures

Barbara Farrell, BScPhm, PharmD, FCSHP

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Learning Objectives

  1. Explain the concept and process of rational deprescribing.
  2. Describe potential benefits and harms of deprescribing medications.
  3. Recognize barriers and enablers of deprescribing medications.
  4. Summarize successful approaches to deprescribing medications such as benzodiazepines and antipsychotics.

Continuing Education Credit and Disclosures

Activity Date: 04/25/2018
ACPE Contact Hours: 1
ACPE Number: 0284-0000-18-042-L04-P (Knowledge)
Nursing Credit Reminder: Note that ACPE credit is accepted for certification renewal.

ACPEThe College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This course provides 1.0 contact hour of knowledge-based continuing education credit from CPNP approved programming.

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