Navigating Transition: Strategies for Care Across Settings and Life Stages

This session will discuss a successful transition for neuromuscular patients moving from the pediatric into adult clinic, with a focus on achieving psychological and physical milestones, receiving multidisciplinary care, and developing independent lifestyles.

 

 

Target Audience

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

 

Learning Objectives

  • Reviewing key elements facing the pediatric health care provider during transitioning patients out of the clinic.
  • Discussing expectations of adult health care providers receiving newly transitioned neuromuscular patients and how they can collaborate with pediatric physicians in doing so.
  • Listening to perspectives of two young adults with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and their experiences making a successful transition to the adult world.
  • Understanding the social and life barriers facing patients in transitioning from pediatric to adult clinics.

Commercial Support
There is no commercial support for this activity.

 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.50 AANP
    • 0.00 AANP Pharmacology Contact Hours
  • 1.50 AAPA Category 1 CME
  • 1.50 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.50 ANCC
  • 1.50 ASWB
  • 1.50 Attendance
Course opens: 
04/14/2025
Course expires: 
04/14/2026
Cost:
$0.00
Rating: 
0
 

DISCLOSURES

Name

Relationship

Commercial Interest

Yaacov Anziska, MD

N/A

Nothing to disclose

Lauren Elman, MD

Advisor

 

Speaker

Lupin, Biogen, Novartis, Edgewise

Passage Bio, Voyager Therapeutics

Biogen

Bakri Elsheikh, MBBS, FRCP

Researcher

Biogen, Genentech, NMD Pharma, RaPharma, Alexion, UCB, Pharnext, Avidity, and Celgene

Tyus Hill

N/A

Nothing to disclose

Christina Trout, RN, MSN

Advisor

Sarepta

Jodi Wolff, PhD, MSSW

Consultant

Rejuvenate Bio, Kate Therapeutics

Bernadette Makar, MSN, APRN-BC, NP-C (planner/reviewer)

N/A

Nothing to disclose

Dorothy Duffy, RPh (planner/reviewer)

N/A

Nothing to disclose

Broc Pollinger, MSW, LSW, OSW-C, (planner/reviewer)

N/A

Nothing to disclose

AKH Inc Staff and Planners

N/A

Nothing to disclose

MDA Staff and Planners

N/A

Nothing to disclose

All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.

 

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.

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare and MDA. AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.5 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

 

Physicians
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Pharmacists
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this continuing education activity for 1.5 contact hours.

Nursing
Credit being awarded: 1.5 ANCC contact hours

Physician Associates
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare has been authorized by the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1.5 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid until 4/14/2026. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Nurse Practitioners
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Accreditation Standards of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) through the joint providership of AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare and MDA.  AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is accredited by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners as an approved provider of nurse practitioner continuing education. Provider number: 030803. This activity is approved for 1.5 contact hour(s) (which includes 0 hour(s) of pharmacology).

Social Workers
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. AKH Inc. Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 continuing education credits.

 

Available Credit

  • 1.50 AANP
    • 0.00 AANP Pharmacology Contact Hours
  • 1.50 AAPA Category 1 CME
  • 1.50 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.50 ANCC
  • 1.50 ASWB
  • 1.50 Attendance

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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