This activity is part of the curriculum in the American College of Cardiology’s RIGHTSTEPS: Optimizing Medical Therapy for Chronic Heart Failure. The initiative seeks to ensure patients with chronic heart failure receive the right guideline-dictated medication. The program is committed to providing education that offers clinicians the right steps to treat the right patients with the right drugs at the right dose at the right time.
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1.00 / AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM 1.00 / CNE Contact Hour
Accredited Provider
Provided by the American College of Cardiology Foundation in collaboration with Haymarket Medical Education
Commercial Supporter
Supported by an educational grant from Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
Program Description
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the primary cause of death in the Native American and Alaska Native community, although as recently as 50 years ago, heart disease was considered rare in this population. Rates of CVD have now surpassed those of the general population, and CVD accounts for much of the discrepancy in life expectancy between indigenous communities, including Native Americans, and nonindigenous populations. When managing Native American patients with heart failure (HF), it is important for healthcare providers to offer counseling about diet, lifestyle interventions, and medical management in a culturally sensitive manner to provide comprehensive care. In this module, expert faculty will discuss evidence-based approaches for managing patients with HF within the Native American community and will talk to a patient to discuss how to individualize approaches for optimal HF management.
Intended Audience
This module is intended for cardiologists, internists, primary care physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners (NPs), physician assistants (PAs), and other clinicians who manage patients with chronic HF
Educational Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be better able to:
Assess the prevalence of heart failure (HF) within the Native American population
Analyze the comorbidities and risk factors involved in the development of HF in Native American patients
Evaluate standard HF medical management when taking into account the cultural needs of Native American patients
Accredited Provider Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest Statement and Disclosure Policy
As a provider accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) must ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all of its directly provided or jointly provided/co-provided educational activities. Planners, presenters, and other contributors in a position to control the content are required to disclose to the audience all relevant financial relationships he/she and/or his/her spouse or domestic partner may have, occurring within the past 12 months, with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing healthcare goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. When an unlabeled use of a commercial product or an investigational use not yet approved for any purpose is discussed during an educational activity, the contributor should disclose that the product is not labeled for the use under discussion or that the product is still investigational.
ACCF is committed to providing its learners with high-quality activities and materials that promote improvements and quality in healthcare and not a specific proprietary business or commercial interest. The intent of this disclosure is not to prevent participation in certified educational activities by persons with a financial or other relationship, but rather to provide learners with information on which they can make their own determination whether financial interests or relationships may influence the certified activity.
ACCF assesses conflict of interest (COI) with its faculty, planners, managers, staff, and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of certified CME/CNE activities. All relevant potential conflicts of interest that are identified are thoroughly vetted by course directors, ACCF education staff, and members of the Accreditation Compliance Workgroup through a process that includes appropriate peer review for fair balance, scientific objectivity and validity, and patient care and safety recommendations.
Faculty
OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
Margaret Bowers, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, CHFN, AACC, FAANP Associate Professor Faculty Coordinator, Adult Nurse Practitioner Programs Lead Faculty, Cardiovascular Specialty Duke University School of Nursing Durham, NC
Margaret Bowers, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, CHFN, AACC, FAANP, has received speakers’ bureau fees from Amgen.
Akshay Desai, MD, MPH, FACC Director, Heart Failure Disease Management Cardiovascular Division Brigham and Women’s Hospital Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Boston, MA
Akshay Desai, MD, MPH, FACC, reports receiving research grants from Novartis and consulting fees from AstraZeneca, Cheetah Medical, Janssen, Merck, Novartis, Relypsa, Sanofi, and St. Jude Medical.
Alan Wasserman, MD, MACP, FACC Chairman, Department of Medicine Eugene Meyer Professor of Medicine George Washington School of Medicine & Health Sciences George Washington University Medical Center Washington, DC
Alan Wasserman, MD, MACP, FACC, has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Cathleen Biga, RN, MSN President and CEO Cardiovascular Management of Illinois Woodridge, IL
Cathleen Biga, RN, MSN, has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Kimberly V. Cheramie, MSN, RN-BC Nurse Planner American College of Cardiology Washington, DC
Kimberly V. Cheramie, MSN, RN-BC, has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
FACULTY PRESENTERS
Dena Wilson, MD, FACC CDR, United States Public Health Service Phoenix Indian Medical Center Phoenix, AZ
Dena Wilson, MD, FACC, has nothing to disclose.
Carlos Jose Rodriguez, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine - Cardiology PI NHLBI Echocardiographic Study of Latinos/Hispanics (ECHO-SOL) Associate Director of Research Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity Wake Forest School of Medicine Winston-Salem, NC
Carlos Jose Rodriguez, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, has received consultant fees from Amgen.
Accredited Provider Disclosures
ACCF staff involved in this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Haymarket Medical Education staff involved in this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Credit
1.00
Type
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM
Accreditation Statement
The American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation Statement
The ACCF designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Physician Assistants
The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM from organizations accredited by ACCME.
Credit
1.00
Type
CNE Contact Hour(s)
Accreditation Statement
The American College of Cardiology Foundation is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Designation Statement
The ACCF designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.00 continuing nursing education contact hour.
While offering credits noted above, the module is not intended to provide extensive training or certification in the field.
Disclosure of Unlabeled Use
This CME activity may or may not discuss investigational, unapproved, or off-label use of drugs. Participants are advised to consult prescribing information for any products discussed. The information provided in this CME activity is for continuing medical education purposes only and is not meant to substitute for the independent medical judgment of a physician relative to diagnostic and treatment options for a specific patient's medical condition.
Disclaimer
The American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) is not responsible for statements made by any contributor. Statements or opinions expressed in this program reflect the views of the contributors and do not reflect the official policy of the ACCF.
Instructions
This activity is offered at no cost to participants. Please proceed with the activity until you have successfully completed this program, answered all test questions, completed the post-test and evaluation, and have received a digital copy of your credit certificate. Your online certificate will be saved on myCME within your Profile/CME History, which you can access at any time.
If you have an American College of Cardiology (ACC) account, you can choose to have your credit information sent to your ACC Transcript upon completion of the course. You will be prompted to log in to your ACC account, which will automatically trigger your credit submission. If you do not have an ACC account, you will have the opportunity to create one.
ACCF Learner Bill of Rights
The ACCF recognizes that you are a lifelong learner who has chosen to engage in continuing medical education to identify or fill a gap in knowledge or skill and to attain or enhance a desired competency. As a participant in an ACCF activity, you have the right to expect that your continuing medical education experience with ACCF includes the following.
Content that:
Promotes improvements or quality in healthcare
Is current, valid, reliable, accurate, and evidence-based
Addresses the stated objectives or purpose
Is driven and based on an independent survey and analysis of learner needs, not commercial interests
Has been reviewed for bias and scientific rigor
Offers balanced presentations that are free of commercial bias
Is vetted through a process that resolves any conflicts of interest of planners and faculty
Is evaluated for its effectiveness in meeting the identified educational need
A learning environment that:
Is based on adult learning principles that support the use of various modalities
Supports learners’ abilities to meet their individual needs
Respects and attends to any special needs of the learners
Respects the diversity of groups of learners
Is free of promotional, commercial, and/or sales activities
Disclosure of:
Relevant financial relationships that planners, teachers, and authors have with commercial interests related to the content of the activity
Commercial support (funding or in-kind resources) of this activity
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