SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA: Friday October 23 and Saturday October 24, 2015

Skills Workshops and
Procedures Courses

We offer several courses where you will review and practice skills and procedures that are commonly done in primary care. You can incorporate the skills into your practice . Not only will they expand your skill set, but procedures also make you more marketable and profitable for a practice!

Types of courses we offer:

Two-Day Skills and Procedures Workshop
More Procedures- Chapter 2
All Day Suturing Workshop
Incision and Drainage, Elliptical Excisions and Excisions of Dermal Cysts

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Two-Day Skills & Procedures Workshop includes training and practice in:

Basic Suturing Skills
Basic Biopsies
Cryotherapy
Joint Injections
Trigger Point Injections
Basic Casting and Splinting
Removing Foreign Bodies from Eyes and Treating Corneal Abrasions
Removing Foreign Bodies and Cerumen from Ears
The Nose and Treating Basic Nosebleeds
Women’s Health Procedures (Introduction to IUDs and Contraception Implants)
Coding and Billing for Procedures

**NOTE: Starting with our class on 11/6/19 in San Diego, the Women's Health Procedures will be replaced by Incision and Drainage Techniques.

Every student will receive a suture kit for practice at home with a suture pad, a needle holder, tissue forceps, and scissors, as well as sutures.

This program is approved for 12.75 contact hour(s) of continuing education (which includes 2.25 pharmacology hours) by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Program ID 19073783. This program was planned in accordance with AANP CE Standards and Policies and AANP Commercial Support Standards.
THIS WILL CHANGE TO ANCC HOURS as of the class on 11/6 (although AANP and ANCC hours are accepted by both organizations (as are AAPA hours.) Here is the verbiage for now for our course as of 11/6: This continuing nursing education activity is being submitted for 12.66 contact hours by the Continuing Nursing Education Group, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
This program has been reviewed and is approved for a maximum of 13.0 hours of AAPA Category 1 CME credit by the Physician Assistant Review Panel. Physician assistants should claim only those hours actually spent participating in the CME activity. This program was planned in accordance with AAPA's CME Standards for Live Programs and for Commercial Support of Live Programs.

.More Procedures-Chapter 2 Workshop includes training and practice in:

Ganglion Cyst Aspiration
Trigger Finger Injection
Drainage of Subungual Hematomas
Plantar Fascia Injections
Management of Olecranon Bursitis
Digital Blocks
Toenail Removal (Partial and Complete)

This program is approved for 6.50 contact hour(s) of continuing education (including 1.75 hours of pharmacology by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Program ID 19053708. This program was planned in accordance with AANP CE Standards and Policies and AANP Commercial Support Standards.

THIS WILL CHANGE TO ANCC HOURS as of the class on 12/7 (although AANP and ANCC hours are accepted by both organizations (as are AAPA hours.) Here is the verbiage for now for our course as of 11/10: This continuing nursing education activity has been approved for 5.83 contact hours by the Continuing Nursing Education Group, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

This program has been reviewed and is approved for a maximum of 5.00 AAPA Category 1 CME credits by the PA Review Panel. PAs should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This program was planned in accordance with AAPA's CME Standards for Live Programs and for Commercial Support of Live Programs.

All Day Suturing Workshop includes training and practice in:
Spend a day working on suturing techniques- All levels of suture skills welcome!
Training and practice in Basic and Advanced Suturing Techniques. Stapling and tissue adhesives will also be covered.
Every student will receive a suture kit for practice at home with a suture pad, a needle holder, tissue forceps, and scissors, as well as sutures.

This continuing nursing education activity has been approved for 4.83 contact hours by the Continuing Nursing Education Group, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

This program has been reviewed and is approved for a maximum of 6.00 AAPA Category 1 CME credits by the PA Review Panel. PAs should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This program was planned in accordance with AAPA's CME Standards for Live Programs and for Commercial Support of Live Programs.

Incision and Drainage, Elliptical Excisions, and Excisions of Dermal Cysts Procedures Workshop- includes training and practice in:
the above procedures, including anesthetic techniques. You will practice on a non-live model and learn techniques for performing these procedures.
This activity is approved for 6.5 contact hour(s) of continuing education (which includes 1.5 hours of pharmacology) by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Activity ID 19073782. This activity was planned in accordance with AANP CE Standards and Policies.
This program has been reviewed and is approved for a maximum of 6.00 AAPA Category 1 CME credits by the PA Review Panel. PAs should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This program was planned in accordance with AAPA's CME Standards for Live Programs and for Commercial Support of Live Programs.

Please note that these courses do not add skills to an individual's scope of practice if they are not already included within that scope.

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Refund Policy:
Cancellation 61 days or over: full refund- minus a $25 office fee (or we will give you full credit for another class)
Cancellation 30-60 days: 50% refund (or will give you credit for another class)
Cancellation 30 days or less: no refund or change of date or location.

Make sure you hold on to your CH/CME certificates as you will receive one at your course.
If you need a replacement in the future, there is a $10.00 fee.