Below is a list of ready-to-go slide decks that Chapter Leaders can use for their Spring or Fall Learning Series. Once a chapter has presented a slide deck, they may not present it again.

2024

Nurse Health and Well-Being (1.0 CE contact hours)

Learning Objectives

  • Identify the physical health concerns found to be prominent in the nursing population.
  • Review the impact of burnout, current workforce issues and stress on the mental health of nurses.
  • Discuss occupational health safety including variations and methods to leverage employer wellness programs and workplace environment issues to promote healthy lifestyles and health attainment by nurse employees.
  • Explore best practices and innovation in self-care and health promotion of the nursing workforce.

2023

Learning Objectives

  • Describe cardiovascular and cardiometabolic complications of pregnancy including long term risks across the lifespan.
  • Discuss the impact of social determinants of heath and implicit bias on cardiovascular related maternal mortality.
  • Review current women’s health guidelines, policies and recommendations.
  • Examine best practices to prevent maternal mortality including improved hypertension monitoring, increased access to perinatal appointments, and more.

A Heart Healthy Lifestyle Counseling: A Focus on the Female Patient (1.0 CE contact hours)

Learning Objectives

  • Identify two pregnancy complications associated with future CVD risk.
  • Describe the integration of brief dietary counseling into a clinical visit.
  • Apply evidence-based interventions to promote physical activity and healthy eating including the PCNA Heart Healthy Toolbox.

Hypertension: Identification, Management, and Equity (1.0 CE contact hours)

Learning Objectives

  • Review current hypertension guidelines.
  • Describe the association between high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk.
  • Explain the impact of implicit bias, oppression and discrimination on cardiovascular health.
  • Discuss treatment strategies for hypertension according to patient’s risk level, co-morbidities, race/ethnicity age.

National Guidelines for the Primary Prevention of CVD: Integrating Hypertension, Cholesterol, Diabetes, and Lifestyle Guidelines into Practice (2.0 CE contact hours)

Learning Objectives

  • Cite and locate national guidelines related to CVD Risk Reduction.
  • Using a case study approach, apply current CVD prevention and risk reduction guidelines to patient care planning.
  • Explain how CV risk assessment tools and patient-centered approaches can help to individualize risk factor management.
  • Describe how to identify and manage CV risk factors according to current guideline recommendations.

Learning Objectives

  • Discuss the risk factors associated with undiagnosed and asymptomatic atrial fibrillation.
  • Incorporate effective strategies for early detection of AFib into clinical practice
  • Select tools that can help in communicating risk factors, prevention strategies, and treatment approaches with patients.
  • Identify key aspects of current recommendations on atrial fibrillation, anticoagulation, stroke risk, and prevention approaches.

2022

Impacts of SGLT2s and GLP1s on CVD, Diabetes, and Renal Function (1.0 CE contact hours)

Learning Objectives

  • Explain the role, function, and side effects of SGLT2 inhibitors and GLP1 receptor agonists.
  • Review the cardio-protective effects of SGLT2is and GLP1 RAs.
  • Discuss the weight loss benefits of GLP1 RAs and SGLT2is.
  • Discuss the weight loss benefits of GLP1 RAs and SGLT2is.
  • Summarize the renal benefits for patients with T2DM prescribed SGLT2is or GLP1 RAs.
  • Apply patient and provider tools to enhance access and adherence to medication regimens.

ASCVD Risk Estimation and Communication (1.0 CE contact hours)

Learning Objectives

  • Describe modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors and enhancers that are known to increase the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD).
  • Explain currently available ASCVD risk estimation tools.
  • Apply tools that can predict risk for ASCVD across patient populations using a case study approach.
  • Summarize Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring considerations.

12 Lead ECG Interpretation (1.0 CE contact hours)

Learning Objectives

  • Review components of the 12-lead ECG.
  • Explain 12-lead ECG interpretation techniques.
  • Discuss patient care considerations of specific ECG findings including prolonged QT, HCM, WPW, and more.
  • Apply 12-lead ECG interpretation techniques through hands-on practice.

2020

Recommending Exercise in those with Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk Factors (1.0 CE contact hours)

Learning Objectives

  • Review CV risk factors, their relationship, association, and prevalence in persons with obesity.
  • Discuss ASCVD risk calculators and demonstrate how to calculate 10-year and lifetime ASCVD risk.
  • List the steps in performing a comprehensive cardiovascular physical assessment to screen for safety in starting an exercise program.
  • Describe best practices in exercise counseling and prescription in persons with obesity.

2019

Peripheral Arterial Disease: Risk Factors, Screening & Treatment (1.0 CE)

Learning Objectives

  • Outline the risk factors associated with PAD.
  • Describe the clinical presentation of patients with PAD.
  • List the steps to perform an Ankle Brachial Index (ABI) to screen for PAD.
  • Discuss common treatments for PAD including a supervised exercise training (SET) program for patients with claudication.

2018

Screening for Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation: Identifying the Undiagnosed Patient (1.0 CE)

Learning Objectives

  • Review prevalence and common risk factors associated with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF).
  • Describe typical signs and symptoms of NVAF and how to assess for them during a clinical encounter.
  • Discuss the importance of pulse taking and follow up ECG to screen high risk patients for NVAF.
  • Using case examples, illustrate how to initiate NVAF treatment, provide follow-up and collaboration across the continuum of care to ensure optimal patient outcomes.

Women’s Cardiovascular Care Across the Life Course – Promoting Prevention During Pregnancy and the Postpartum and Childbearing Years (1.0 CE)

Learning Objectives

  • Identify three pregnancy complications associated with future cardiovascular or cardiometabolic risk
  • Identify women who are at increased risk for developing these pregnancy-related complications
  • Describe the cardiovascular or cardiometabolic risk associated with these pregnancy-related complications
  • Describe clinical guidelines and recommendations for postpartum follow up and risk reduction in women with histories of these pregnancy-related complications
  • Apply evidence-based interventions to promote healthy eating, physical activity, and breastfeeding during the postpartum and childbearing years