Nurse Practitioner Support and Alignment Network (NP SAN)

• Cannabis: What Does it Mean for your Practice?
• Making the Case for the Nurse Practitioner
• Managing Medication Reconciliation
• R-SCAN: Appropriate Radiology Imaging Practice Tools for Clinicians
• Improve Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families: Part 1
• Cultural and Linguistic Competence
• Improve Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families: Part 2
• Culturally Sensitive Care to LGBT+ Patients
• Enhanced Communication for Practice Transformation
• Acute Pain Management in Opioid-tolerant Individuals
• CAHPS Survey and Health Reform—What You Need to Know
• Enhancing Patient Health Literacy in a Primary Care Setting
• Medication Use and Hospital Readmissions: A Study on Elders
• Review of Systems: The Backbone of Practice
• Poorly Controlled Diabetes: A Complex Disease State
• Women and Heart Disease: An Evidence-based Update
• Clinician Endorsement in Patient Activation in Health Management
• Time and NP Practice: Naming, Claiming, and Explaining the Role of Nurse Practitioners
• Nurse Practitioner Home-based Primary Care

• Do State Restrictions on APRNs Impact Patient Outcome?
• How to Become a Published Author
• Full Practice Authority: What Every NP Needs To Know
• Full Practice Authority in Tennessee: Lessons Learned
• Successful Transition Into NP Practice: A Practical Guide
• Malpractice and Protecting Your NP License
• From Graduation to Employment: Steps to Success
• Aligning Data and Policy Goals: The Relationship Between NP Compensation and Value With CMS Change Tactics
• Making the Case for the Nurse Practitioner
• The Role of Scribes and Legal Implications for NPs
• Full Practice Authority: What Every NP Needs to Know (Repeat)
• Bill Analysis: How to Read and Analyze Legislation for Impact to Patients and the Profession
• The One-minute Preceptor Model: A Systematic Review

• Nursing Leadership: Current Status and What Lies Ahead
• Transforming Health Care: Data, Value and Populations
• EHR Implementation for Small and Rural Practices: Part 1
• EHR: Patient Care and Ethical/Legal Implications for NPs (Part 1)
• EHR Implementation for Small and Rural Primary Care Practices: Part 2
• NP SAN Member Survey Results: Your Voice Heard and Next Steps

• Strategic Use of Practice Revenue
• The Science of Joy and Burnout
• Before You Start Your NP Business (Part 1)
• Starting Your Own Business—Part 2
• MIPS: What You Need to Know in Year 2—A Conversation With CMS
• Creating Long-term Practice Success—Part 3
• Novice NP Workforce Transition and Turnover Intention in Primary Care
• American Self-Employed NPs: An Exploratory Study
• Documentation and Coding: Building Your Sundae
• Understanding How to Legally Protect Your License

CE sessions that align with the TCPI goals and objectives are available in the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative category in the AANP CE Center. Also available are the following recorded sessions from AANP conferences:

2019 AANP National Conference

• Antibiotics Infection & the Evidence: 2019 Update
• Rev Up Your Coding Skills to Win the Reimbursement Race
• Clinicians, Patients, & Activation: Improving Health Outcomes & Decreasing Costs in Chronic Disease Deployment of NPs to Combat America's Opioid Crisis
• Treatment of Hypertension in Older Adults: An Evidence-Based Approach Hypertension: How Low Should You Go?
• Low Back Pain: Standardizing Primary Care Practice to Eliminate Unnecessary Radiological Imaging in Military Treatment Facilities
• Marijuana: It's Approved, Now What?
• Neurological Radiology Indications & Interpretation: What to Order When
• Protecting Your Practice by Knowing Opioid Prescribing Standards
• Pharmacology 101: What's New in the World Pharmacology
• Practice Profits & Loss and Why They Matter to the Employed Nurse Practitioner Reducing Diagnostic Errors in Practice
• Reimbursement Update for Acute Care
• Resistant Hypertension: What's a Nurse Practitioner To Do?

2018 AANP National Conference

• Take ACTION: Opioid Overdose Prevention Education Training for Nurse Practitioners (0.5 pharmacology)
• Primary Care Screening and Diagnosis of Pediatric Anxiety and Depression (0.5 pharmacology)
• Managing Depression and Anxiety in Primary Care: Evidence-based Mental Health Concerns
• Advanced Spinal Imaging: MRI or Not to MRI
• Delirium Superimposed Upon Dementia: High Index of Suspicion!
• Psychiatry for Non-psychiatrists: Psychopharmacology in Primary Care (0.67 pharmacology)
• Achieving Peak Performance in Risk Adjustment Coding
• Opioid Prescribers: Avoiding Practice Breakdown and Disciplinary Action (1.0 pharmacology)
• Antibiotics, Infection and the Evidence: Update 2018 (1.0 pharmacology)
• Screening Adolescents for Risk of Suicide in Primary Care Settings
• Reality Check: Are You Evidence Based When Prescribing Psychotropic Drugs for Your Older Patients? (1.0 pharmacology)
• Neurological Radiology Indications and Interpretation: What to Order When
• Profits, Costs and RVUs: Business Metrics 101 for the Nurse Practitioner
• Where Practice Meets Business: How to Create a Compelling Business Case
• Reducing Diagnostic Errors in Practice: A Call to Action for Nurse Practitioners
• Understanding Business and Legal Implications for NP Practice

2017 AANP National Conference

• A Patient-centered Approach to Lipid Management
• Medication Management for Older Adults
• ICD-10 Documentation and Coding Primer for Primary Care
• Reimbursement for NPs in Acute Care/How Value Based Management of Medicare Patients Translates Into Large Scale Cost Savings/Getting Into the Practice of Business: A Brief Guide to Starting a NP-led Clinic
• LGBTQi2: What is an NP to Do? Caring for Patients With Cultural Humility
• Assessing for Suicidal Adolescents in a Primary Care Setting
• Best Practices in Obesity Management
• Evidenced-based Child and Adolescent Mental Health Screening, Brief Intervention and Management in Primary Care
• Useful Tools for Promoting Behavior Change and Self-management in Diabetes and Prediabetes
• Update on the Diagnosis and Management of Resistant Hypertension

2017 AANP Specialty and Leadership Conference

• Nutrition: The Function of Food and Its role in Obesity Management
• The Role of the Nurse Practitioner in Telehealth
• Competency Development and Leadership in Practice
• Neuropathic Pain: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Common Conditions
• Workload, Quality, Burnout: Improving the Lives of Patients and Providers Through Interprofessional Practice
• Adolescent Substance Abuse: How to Recognize, Screen and Treat the Minor Patient

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2019 MIPS Estimator: Use the free Stratis Health MIPS Estimator to determine which measures and data submission methods give you the highest baseline Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) composite score. Then, make workflow changes to improve patient outcomes and work towards improving your MIPS score to achieve the highest possible reimbursement.

MACRA initiated the transition from fee-for-service to a quality-based Medicare reimbursement structure. AANP has covered with the news and tools you need to successfully navigate this transition.

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CMS recently awarded $20 million to 11 organizations for the first year of a five-year program to provide on-the-ground training and education about the Quality Payment Program for clinicians in individual or small group practices of 15 clinicians or fewer. NPs and clinicians who have not been successfully referred to a Practice Transformation Network (PTN) after enrolling in NP SAN can look forward to accessing this new program.

Clinicians will receive help choosing and reporting on quality measures, as well as guidance with all aspects of the program, including supporting change management and strategic planning and assessing and optimizing health information technology. As part of that outreach effort, CMS also launched a new telephone helpline for clinicians seeking assistance with the Quality Payment Program. Clinicians may contact the Quality Payment Program by calling 1-866-288-8292 from 8 a.m.–8 p.m. ET or by emailing qpp@cms.hhs.gov.