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Starting Now: Conversations About Seizures and Rescue Therapies

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Overview / Abstract:

Target Audience
The audience for this educational initiative is nurses, advanced practice providers, and other health professionals who care for people with epilepsy.

Program Overview
Every person living with epilepsy should have a seizure action plan. Every person with epilepsy should also know about seizure rescue therapies. Improving care for people with epilepsy starts with a conversation about seizure action plans and rescue therapies.

In this activity, celebrity advocate Jack Coleman introduces adults with epilepsy and care partners who talk about the impact of seizure action plans and rescue therapies. Epilepsy nurse specialists explore new rescue therapy options that can be given by patients and care partners to treat seizures and prevent seizure emergencies. These specialists share practical tips for creating shared understanding, individualizing seizure action plans, and educating about rescue therapies. Downloadable resource handouts for health professionals and patients/care partners are provided.

Learning Goal/Purpose
The goal of this educational activity is to enhance the knowledge, competence, and confidence that nurses need to successfully individualize seizure rescue therapy for people with epilepsy and their care partners.

Learning Objectives
On completion of this activity, the learner will be better able to:

Specify the unmet needs of adults and adolescents living with epilepsy and their implications for rescue therapy
Individualize rescue therapy based on each person’s medical needs, preferences, and lifestyle
Employ practical communication and education strategies that support the safe and effective use of rescue therapies

Expiration

Feb 28, 2024

Discipline(s)

Nursing CNE

Format

Online

Credits / Hours

1.0 Contact Hours

Accreditation

ACCME

Presenters / Authors / Faculty

Faculty
Patricia Osborne Shafer, RN, MN
Osborne Health Consulting

Epilepsy Clinical Nurse Specialist, formerly at
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts

Former Senior Director of Health Information
and Resources and Associate Editor of epilepsy.com, Epilepsy Foundation
Boston, Massachusetts

Lucretia Long, APRN-GNP, FAES
Epilepsy Nurse Practitioner
Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Department of Neurology
Columbus, Ohio

Maritza M. Lopez, RN, MS, NP, CNRN
Epilepsy Nurse Coordinator
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Nancy Santilli, PNP, MN
Former Associate Professor
Department of Neurology and
Former Associate Director
Comprehensive Epilepsy Program
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia

Past President
Epilepsy Foundation
Charlottesville, Virginia

Sponsors / Supporters / Grant Providers

Neurelis Inc.

Keywords / Search Terms

Relias LLC Relias LLC., FreeCME., Seizures Free CE CME

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