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Date & Location
Friday, May 14, 2021, 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM, VCU Health Parham and Broad Building, Richmond, VA

Target Audience
Specialties - Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Hospital Medicine , Neurology, Neurosurgery, Nurse Practitioner, Nursing, Pediatrics, Pharmacist, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Physicians, Speech Language Pathology, Vascular Surgery

Overview
The VCU Health Comprehensive Stroke Symposium is committed to advancing the knowledge of nurses, advanced practice providers and other healthcare professionals in most current concepts and advancements in the care of patients with cerebrovascular disease. As an academic tertiary referral center, VCU Health cares for complex stroke patients, pediatrics to adults, throughout the continuum of care from emergency care to in-patient rehabilitation and out-patient stroke clinics.


Objectives
  1. Compare and contrast tenecteplase versus alteplase for stroke
  2. Outline new evidence supporting extension of the thrombolysis treatment window
  3. Identify strategies essential for managing the challenges facing children with stroke
  4. Describe alternative surgical procedures for carotid artery revascularization
  5. Review post acute stroke management techniques
  6. Describe how to incorporate ABCDE mobility bundle into practice
  7. Discuss neuroplasticity and biomedical therapeutic options
  8. Review interprofessional stroke management team member roles and scopes of practice
  9. Apply the knowledge gained to provide effective team-based patient care assessment and early intervention to prevent stroke complications

Registration

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Registration Fees

 

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, VCU Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

VCU Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

VCU Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.5 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity provides 6.5 contact hours (.65 CEUs) of continuing education credit. ACPE Universal Activity Number (UAN): JA4008237-0000-20-018-L01-P.

 

NOTE FOR PHARMACISTS: Upon closing of the online evaluation, VCU Health CE will upload the pharmacy-related continuing education information to CPE Monitor within 60 days. Per ACPE rules, VCU Health CE does not have access nor the ability to upload credits requested after the evaluation closes. It is the responsibility of the pharmacist or pharmacy technician to provide the correct information [NABP ePID and DOB (in MMDD format)] in order to receive credit for participating in a CE activity.

Disclaimers 
Minimum and maximum numbers for attendance at this event have been established, and we reserve the right to substitute speakers/topics, adjust credit hours, or cancel if necessary.

By attending this event you grant VCU Health CE the right at the event to record, film, photograph, or capture your likeness in any media and to distribute, broadcast, use, or otherwise disseminate, in perpetuity, such media without any further approval from or any payment to you.  

 

Credits
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (6.50 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (6.50 hours), ACPE - Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (6.50 hours), ANCC - American Nurses Credentialing Center (6.50 hours), IPCE - Interprofessional Continuing Education Credit (6.50 hours)