Description:

During this one-hour CE session, we hope to share our personal experiences with caring for patients with COVID-19 as well as how COVID-19 has changed practice in both the emergency department and on a health-system level. We will discuss objectives from both a pharmacist and nurse perspective and aim to relate to a broad audience of pharmacy practice areas. We will also provide clinical, practice, and mental health resources that we have found useful in dealing with the challenges of caring for all patients in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify clinical and practice resources for COVID-19 management (both clinical and practice).
2. Describe current challenges in patient-caregiver (pharmacist, provider, nurse) relationships.
3. Recognize various ways in which clinical practice/concerns have changed for front-line workers with regard to PPE and drug shortages, among others.
4. Identify resources for emotional and mental support and apply strategies to identify mental health concerns in self/colleagues.

Speaker: Holly Drone, PharmD, BCCCP

Holly Drone, PharmD, BCCCP, graduated from the University of Minnesota, College of Pharmacy in 2013 and completed residencies in pharmacy practice & critical care at Hennepin Healthcare. She currently practices in emergency medicine at Hennepin Healthcare and has previous practice experience in intensive care, burn, and pediatrics.

Sarah Elde, RN, BSN

Sarah Elde, RN, BSN, graduated from the University of Minnesota, School of Nursing in 2008. She started her career at a rural critical access hospital in North Dakota. She currently practices at Hennepin Healthcare Emergency Department and is a senior staff nurse of the Disaster/Special Pathogens Team.

Registration Fees:

The cost is $25 for non-members. MPhA pharmacist members, pharmacy technician members and student members may attend at no cost.

Continuing Education:

This presentation is being submitted to the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy for Continuing Education credit approval (one hour).

To receive Board of Pharmacy credits for this program, the following must be completed:

• Full participation/completion of webinar either during the live program or the archived presentation

• Completion of survey post webinar acknowledging participation

Board of Pharmacy credit processing takes place on the 15th of each month.

The Minnesota Pharmacists Association is accredited by the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

Questions? Please contact info@mpha.org with questions about credits.

Please contact joef@mpha.org with any technical questions or issues.