Recorded for the 2018 UCA Urgent Care Fall Conference

36 minutes of synced audio and PowerPoint

Course Description:

Previous antibiotic stewardship programs have demonstrated successful patient outcomes in hospitalized patients. Current research reveals that outpatient pediatric patients continue to receive antibiotics for conditions where they are not indicated. All Urgent Care providers are in a unique position to reduce unnecessary use of antibiotics by increasing their awareness of appropriate antibiotic practices. Antibiotic stewardship involves treating bacterial infections with appropriate narrow-spectrum antibiotics, prescribing accurate therapeutic dosages, and recognizing inaccurate information circulated on social media/cyberspace that influence patients and families to request unnecessary antibiotics. This course will provide current antibiotic stewardship recommendations for pediatric UCC patients. In addition, an overview of UCA antibiotic stewardship initiatives will be reviewed.

Speaker:

Robin Henson DNP RN CPNP-PC is a full-time nurse practitioner at Cook Children’s Urgent Care, Fort Worth, Texas. She received her BSN and MSN degrees from the University of Texas at Arlington and completed her Doctor of Nursing Practice through Texas Woman’s University.

Over the past 3 decades, she has worked as a healthcare provider in many pediatric outpatient primary care settings. In addition, she operated and oversaw a NP operated Medicaid clinic in Denton, Texas in 2007. Before joining the Cook Children’s UCC three years ago, she worked at Cook Children’s GI & Nutrition Clinic for five years. She currently is the UCC APP Supervisor and chairs the UCC QI and Research Council. She serves on many community boards, including the UCLA Well-Child Care Practice Design Expert Panel and is Adjunct Faculty for TWU’s Nursing Program.

She and her husband, Kevin, have been married 34 years and have 3 adult children and 5 grandchildren. She enjoys spending time with her family and friends, traveling, hosting dinner parties, learning about wine, gardening, and running. She and Kevin recently moved onto 5 acres and raise Spanish goats and Ameraucana chickens (they lay blue eggs!) as an additional hobby.

Disclosures:

None

1 CME

Designation Statement

The Urgent Care Association designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Accreditation Statement

The Urgent Care Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Submitting for Credit:

If you would like to submit for credit above, you complete the 5 question knowledge test and answer 3 out of 5 correctly. Your certificate will be available under My Credits in your UCA profile and your credit will be placed in your profile under “Professional Development” of click on “My Credits”.

Please email education@ucaoa.org with questions.