Education for Providers & Staff
Why a Regional Education Initiative?
- Antithrombotic medications are one of the highest risk medication classes
- Studies show that there can be improvements to the safe and effective use of these medications
- To help address compliance with current and proposed national patient safety initiatives and improve patient outcomes through:
- Access to core curriculum of current practice guidelines
- Quarterly updates online of the latest studies and guidelines
- A comprehensive biennial symposium
- To provide access to current practice standards, as new practice changing studies and guidelines are published
- To provide tools to help implement practice changes
Target Audience:
Anyone who provides care to patients with (or at risk for) thrombotic disorders in the Western U.S. including:
- Physicians
- Pharmacists
- Nurse Practitioners
- Physician Assistants
- Nurses
- Resident/student physicians
Goals:
Through participation practitioners will be able to:
- Practice safe and effective use of antithrombotic agents in patients with (or at risk for) venous thrombosis, cardiovascular, or cerebrovascular disease
- Translate thrombotic-related guidelines into local protocols and daily practice
- Meet or exceed national patient safety standards with regard to thrombotic-related issues
- Assimilate and integrate current clinical trial publications into practice
Curriculum Content Areas:
- Anti-thrombotic agents: Pharmacology, monitoring and special population considerations
- Venous Thrombosis: Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
- Quality Improvement initiatives in thrombosis prevention and management
- Antithrombotic management of atrial fibrillation
- Primary prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease
- Specialty consultation series: management of acute stroke, invasive management of PAD, and rhythm control strategies for atrial fibrillation.
- Managing the complications of anti-thrombotic therapy: bleeding, heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, etc.
- Peri-procedural anticoagulation management
Educational Formats:
Our innovative educational program is a three part, multi-modality thrombosis curriculum, consisting of eight core topic areas, with a 2-year curriculum cycle.
