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Activity Date: 04/24/2018

AAPP 2018 registration is closed.

Session Time and Location

The live session is complete.

Target Audience

This course is designed for pharmacists, nurse practitioners or other healthcare professionals involved in the comprehensive medication management of psychiatric and/or neurological patients.

Session Summary

Drug screenings plays a vital role in patient care and can help pharmacists aid in a diagnosis, document adherence and potentially identify diversion of a substance. Understanding how to interpret drug screens can be complex secondary to cross reactivity, drug metabolisms, patient characteristics and manipulation of drug screens. Research has shown that clinicians often lack appropriate training in interpreting drug screens, which could result in negative consequences for the patient. The session will focus on urine drug screens, how to interpret them, and cross reactivity of different substances. Other testing modalities besides urine testing will also be reviewed.

Course Requirements

To receive ACPE credit for the live session at the Annual Meeting, you must:

  • Sign in (or create a FREE account).
  • Register for this course.
  • Attend and participate in the entire session and reflect upon its teachings.
  • Complete the evaluation at the end of the activity.
  • Provide the necessary details in your profile to ensure correct reporting by AAPP to CPE Monitor.

This course will be provided at the CPNP 2018 Annual Meeting, April 22-25, 2018. Upon successful completion, ACPE credit is reported immediately to CPE Monitor although transcripts can be retrieved by participants online at https://aapp.org/mycpnp/transcript/acpe.

Faculty Information and Disclosures

Learning Objectives

  1. Compare and contrast the different drug screening modalities.
  2. State substances that can be tested for in a urine drug screen and other testing modalities.
  3. Identify issues with false positive and negative results in drug screens.
  4. Interpret drug screen results and determine the possible limitations including the possibility of alteration of the sample and inability to test for all illicit substances.
  5. Redesign treatment plan based on drug screen results.

Continuing Education Credit and Disclosures

Activity Date: 04/24/2018
ACPE Contact Hours: 1
ACPE Number: 0284-0000-18-040-L01-P (Knowledge)
Nursing Credit Reminder: Note that ACPE credit is accepted for certification renewal.

ACPEThe College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This course provides 1.0 contact hour of knowledge-based continuing education credit from CPNP approved programming.

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Grant Support

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This project is supported by the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry under its prime grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.