CIMPAR ASP Freeport Workshop A

October 15, 2025

This activity incorporates the CDC’s Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship for Nursing Homes and Infection Prevention guidelines.

Target Audience

This activity is designed for an audience of nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, physicians, and physician associates.

Learning Objectives

Describe the relationship between infection prevention (IP) and antibiotic stewardship (AS) programs, including their shared goals in reducing healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance.
Identify key regulatory requirements and CDC Core Elements that guide antibiotic stewardship implementation in long-term care facilities.
Apply clinical and surveillance criteria (e.g., Loeb and McGeer) to case examples in order to evaluate appropriate antibiotic use and infection management decisions.

Commercial Support
There is no commercial support for this activity.

Course summary

Available credit:

2.75 AANP
2.75 AAPA Category 1 CME
0.00 ACPE Pharmacist
2.75 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
2.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
2.75 ANCC
2.75 Attendance

Course opens:

09/12/2025

Course expires:

11/15/2025

Event starts:

10/15/2025 - 9:00am EDT

Event ends:

10/15/2025 - 12:00pm EDT

Cost:

$0.00

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Rating:

Freeport, IL

United States

Dorothy Duffy, RPh (Reviewer)
Bernadette Makar, MSN, APRN-BC, NP-C (Reviewer)
AKH Inc Staff and Planners

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Disclosures
None of the planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

It is the policy of AKH Inc. to ensure independence, balance, objectivity, scientific rigor, and integrity in all of its continuing education activities. The author must disclose to the participants any significant relationships with ineligible companies whose products or devices may be mentioned in the activity or with the commercial supporter of this continuing education activity. Identified conflicts of interest are mitigated by AKH prior to accreditation of the activity. AKH planners and reviewers have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Disclosure of Unlabeled Use and Investigational Product
This educational activity may include discussion of uses of agents that are investigational and/or unapproved by the FDA. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

Disclaimer
This course is designed solely to provide the healthcare professional with information to assist in his/her practice and professional development and is not to be considered a diagnostic tool to replace professional advice or treatment. The course serves as a general guide to the healthcare professional, and therefore, cannot be considered as giving legal, nursing, medical, or other professional advice in specific cases. AKH Inc. specifically disclaim responsibility for any adverse consequences resulting directly or indirectly from information in the course, for undetected error, or through participants misunderstanding of the content. If you would like to opt out from future communications from AKH please send an email to [email protected] with your information with "Opt Out" in the subject line.

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