Knowledge-Based CPE Session for
Technicians Only
3.0 Contact Hours (0.3 CEUs)
Saturday June 4, 2016
Kent Hospital Doctors' Auditorium
455 Toll Gate Road, Warwick, RI 02886
Topic 1: Commonly Used Prescription Medications and Their Relationship to Addiction
Topic 2: Sterile Compounding Review
Topic 3: Diabetes Update
Missy Previte & Michael Barbone
PharmD Candidates
University of Rhode Island
College of Pharmacy
Program Agenda:
8:00 AM Registration and light breakfast/coffee
8:30-9:30 AM First Presentation
9:30-9:40 AM Break
9:40-10:40 AM Second Presentation
10:40-10:50 AM Break
10:50-11:50 AM Third Presentation
Members $20.00
Non-Members $40.00
Please register on-line only. Please do not mail in registrations. Fees are payable at sign-in or online via Paypal Online: www.rishp.org. Refund requests must be made by written request and are at the discretion of the RISHP Board of Directors.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this learning activity, pharmacy technicians will be able to:
- Review commonly abused prescription medications.
- Identify the impact of substance abuse and addiction.
- Describe the changes in brain circuitry that occur following prolonged drug use.
- Describe aseptic technique for compounding sterile products.
- Review various mathematical calculation methods used when compounding sterile products.
- Explain the pathophysiology of diabetes type 1 and 2.
- List most common pharmacologic agents used to treat diabetes.
- List new agents approved for use in the past 5 years.
