American Board of Cardiovascular
Medicine, Inc. (ABCM)
P.O. Box 3219, Spring Hill, FL 34611
www.cvncertify.org, jenragan@accn.net
(352)293-3131 or (813)394-4968
Dear Colleague:
June 30, 2014
We want to inform you about the Clinical Cardiology Review Course and Board Certification Opportunity scheduled at the Gaylord National Resort and Conference
Center in National Harbor, MD, September 26-30, 2014. This Course was designed specifically for your continued Professional Development and/or Certification needs.
You will not want to miss this Exceptional opportunity. Mark your calendar, and make your reservations today to take advantage of the early bird prices. We guarantee
you, hands down, this is one of the Best Clinical Cardiology Courses in existence, and we offer the only Certification in Cardiology available to Nurse Practitioners and
Physician Assistants.
Four Reasons Why You Will Want to Attend this Clinical Cardiology Board Review Course?
First of all, our History of Providing Cardiovascular Professionals, from Physician, to Technicians with Evidence Based Practice Standards of Education, and Certification
Opportunities since 1969, is ”Second to None!”
Our Late Co-Founder, Henry J. L. Marriott, MD, FACC worked alongside Jonni Cooper in the Development of Standards of Practice and Education for 4 levels of
Electrocardiography from basic to advanced, and 4 levels of Practice for Clinical Nurses and Nurse Practitioners. They then followed up by Developing Certification
Examinations for all 8 levels of Practice in Cardiology with the assistance of over two dozen Experts in various Subspecialties within Cardiology. Dr. Marriott never
accepted mediocrity from his staff, students, or co-workers, and they managed to live up to his standard with great pride. Ms. Cooper the Organization’s Founder,
assured Dr. Marriott that we would not waiver from his high standard and made a promise that we would continue to carry on a high standard of practice and education,
and continue to strive for Excellence in Education for all Cardiovascular Care Givers through our “House of Cardiology,” a term dubbed by Dr. Marriott Himself.
Second, you will interact and Network with Fellow Cardiac Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants on a National Level, and you will be led by, and interact
with a well informed and Dynamic Course Director and Faculty: David Friedman, MD, FACC, FACP, Attending Cardiologist, Nassau Cardiology of North Shore-LIJ
Health System, Chief, Heart Failure Services at North Shore-LIJ Franklin Hospital, Assistant Professor of Cardiology Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine;
Candice Harvey Falls, PhDc, MSN, ACNP-BC, CVNP-BC, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner at the University of Kentucky Hospital, Lexington, KY; and Alice Friedrich,
MS, ANP, CVRN-BC, a Cardiovascular Nurse Practitioner for the North Shore-LIJ Health System in Woodbury, NY.
Third, this Clinical Cardiology Course was designed specifically for your Professional Development and Provides an Excellent Comprehensive Up-Date in Clinical
Evaluation, Diagnosis, and Management for a host of Cardiac Diseases and Anomalies (note the Course Review Topics below). And you will also have the opportunity
to validate your Skills and Knowledge in Clinical Cardiology by passing your CVNP-BC or CVPA-BC Board Certification Examination.
And, fourth, if you attend the Course and persuade a Colleague to also attend, you will be given a complimentary ACCNP Membership that you may use when
registering for this Course. Join online at www.cvncertify.org under Membership Opportunities at the bottom left panel of our home page.
If our goals are similar, let’s meet at the Gaylord for a highly interactive learning experience and share our knowledge with one another. We guarantee you will leave
with a renewed motivation and excitement for learning that you have not felt in a long time.
Do send us an email if you would like to be placed on our list to receive announcements about future programs and developments for Cardiac Nurse Practitioners and
Physician Assistants: jenragan@accn.net. We would also really appreciate your sharing this Course announcement with your local NP and/or PA Network. To download
the full brochure and/or to register online, visit www.cvncertify.org
and click on Conference Calendar in the top menu panel, scroll down to this Course by date, and then by Title.
Let’s All Meet at the Gaylord!
Meet us at the Gaylord for a Great Week of Clinical Cardiology
The American Board of Cardiovascular Medicine, Inc.,
Marriott Heart Foundation, American College of Cardiac
Nurse Practitioners, American College of Cardiovascular
Nurses, and John Wiley & Sons Partnering to Present
This:
CLINICAL CARDIOLOGY
BOARD REVIEW
COURSE
& CERTIFICATION OPPORTUNITY
for
Specifically for Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants,
and Masters Prepared Advanced Clinical Cardiovascular
Nurse Specialist and Cardiovascular Nursing Educators;
Advanced Practice Nurses Welcome!
September 26-30, 2014
Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center,
National Harbor, MD
This Clinical Cardiology Course Provides the Essentials of
Evidence-Based Practice for a Host of Cardiac Diseases
and Anomalies & Core Competency
Certification Testing.
Why select this Clinical Cardiology Board
Review Course & Certification Opportunity?
1.The ABCM’s proven History and Success in the Business of
Cardiology Education and Certification is Second to None!
2.We deliver Evidence-Based Practice Standards and
recommend implementation strategies.
3.We have been Educating all levels of Cardiology Practitioners
from Physician to Technician, and have been Developing
Certification Examinations for these Cardiac Professionals since
1969; a History Second to None!.
The ABCM recognizes that to become one of the best Cardiac
Caregivers, one must have strong Intuitive Skills and a Scientific
Foundation of knowledge in Physiology, Pathophysiology,
Psychology, Sociology, Epidemiology, and Behavioral Science,
upon which to develop the “Art of Caring” for Cardiac Patients.
Day 1: 8:00am 5:00pm
Introduction: When Intuition and Science
Meet, we Develop the Art of Caring!
Anatomy of the Heart and Great Vessels
Atherosclerosis and the Endothelium
Hyperlipidemia
Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology
Cardiac Catheterization and Angiography
Nuclear Imaging and Stress Testing
Emission Computed Tomography
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Echocardiography
Electrocardiography – Advanced 12-Lead
Electrophysiology Testing
Day 4: 8:00am 5:00pm
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Cardiac Pharmacology
Cardiac Arrest
Cor Pulmonale: Acute and Chronic
Pulmonary Hypertension
Pulmonary Thromboembolism
Valve Disorders
Systemic Disease of the Heart
Peripheral Vascular Disease including
Stroke
Day 5: Cardiology Board Exams: Optional
9:00am – 2:00pm Optional Cardiology Board
Certification Exams Available: The American
Board of Cardiovascular Medicine (ABCM) will
Day 2: 8:00am 5:00pm
have a proctor onsite for those wishing to sit for
History & Physical Assessment of the CV Patient one of the Cardiology Exams. Visit the ABCM at
www.cvncertify.org for full details on all Exams.
The Art of Listening to Heart & Lung Sounds
This Course will focus on the Essential Evidence-Based Practice
The Board Certification Exams are being
Standards and Core Competencies in Clinical Cardiology, and
Cardiovascular Reflexes & Humoral Control
discounted for those attending this Clinical
Provide an Up-Date in Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment options
of Circulation
Cardiology Review Course.
for a host of Cardiac Diseases and Anomalies. Our goal is to
Left Ventricular Systolic and Diastolic
assist you in achieving your best in the everyday delivery of
The Certification Exams for Nurse Practitioners
Dysfunction
Advanced Practice to your Cardiac Patients, and/or to prepare
and Physician Assistants who are practicing in
Heart Failure
Cardiology, are a giant step forward in their
you for the Clinical Cardiovascular Nurse Practitioner or Physician
Hypertension
Professional and Personal Development. Be
Assistant Board Certification Exams. The CVNE Exams will also
among the Elite Cardiovascular Practitioners
Cardiomyopathies
be available to approved Cardiovascular Educators.
who have already passed their Cardiology SubAcute Coronary Syndromes: STEMI, NSTEMI,
Specialty Board Certification Exams from the
Unstable and Stable Angina
Whether you are a Nurse Practitioner, a Physician Assistant,
ABCM. We launched the Nations first EKG
Cardiovascular Clinical Nurse Specialist or a Cardiovascular
Metabolic Syndrome & Diabetes
Exams for Physicians reading on Hospital EKG
Nursing Educator seeking a Review Course for the CVNP, CVPA,
Panels in 1969. From there, we developed
Cardiology Board Certification Exams for the
or CVNE Board Certification Examinations, or you simply need a
Day 3: 8:00am 5:00pm
entire Gamut of Cardiac Caregivers from the
Comprehensive Refresher Course in Evidence-Based Clinical
Pericardial Disease: Tamponade & Effusion
Physicians, to Physician Assistants, to Nurse
Cardiology, this is the time and place we need to meet!
Endocarditis and Myocarditis
Practitioners, to Cardiac Nurses, and to a host of
Cardiac Technicians.
Cardiac
Trauma
National Harbor, MD – September 26-30, 2014
Cardiac
Tumors
At the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center!
Gaylord National Resort & Conference Center
HIV and the Heart Disease
Pregnancy and the Heart
Where you will have the opportunity to interact and network with
your peers on a National level, who specialize in Cardiology, and
Congenital Heart Disease
with a very energized and knowledgeable Nationally recognized
Coronary Angioplasty
Faculty. You will also have the opportunity to validate your
Coronary Artery Stents
knowledge and skills in Clinical Cardiology by sitting for one of the Medical & Surgical Therapy for Circulatory
Cardiovascular Board Certification Exams offered by the ABCM
Failure, Including Transplant and Myoplasty
onsite at the conclusion of this Course: CVNP-BC, CVPA-BC,
Pacemakers,
ICDs, and CRTs
CVNE-BC, or any level of EKG-BC Certification.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, the Heart
Writes a Best Seller, Learn To Read
it Well.” Quote from our late Co-Founder
Henry J. L. Marriott, MD, FACC
Clinical Cardiology Board Review Course and/or Certification Exam
Application : September 26-30, 2014 at the Gaylord National Resort and
Convention Center, National Harbor, MD
To Register by mail, send your check or money order made payable to ABCM, Inc. to
P.O. Box Spring Hill, FL no later than September 15th, 2014. You may combine your
course and exam fees in one check or two separate checks.
Faculty:
To Register online with your credit card, visit www.accn.net, then go to Conference
David Friedman, MD, FACC, FACP (Course Director)
Calendar at the top menu panel, then scroll down to this conference date and location
Candice Harvey Falls, PhDc, MSN, ACNP-BC,
CVNP-BC, & Alice Friedrich, MS, ANP, BSN, CVNP-BC to register.
CE/CME Information
CE credits for this course are offered by the American Board of Cardiovascular
Medicine, who are approved by the FL State Board of Nursing’s CE Broker
#50-14076 for 32 CE credits hours.
CME credits for this course have been applied for through John Wiley and Sons who
are accredited by the ACCME for Continuing Medical Education for Physicians, Nurse
Practitioners, and Physician Assistants for 32 CME credits hours.
General Information: This Gaylord Resort is a no smoking resort. The ABCM
does not allow any video or audio taping of the Course, or any unauthorized photos to
be taken during the course. Faculty may change and topic timing may change due to
faculty changes without notification.
Cancellation Policy
There is a cancellation fee of $150 regardless of when you cancel by email or in writing. No phone
calls are allowed for cancellation, it must be in writing in an email or letter. If you do not show up
without a written notification, your entire registration fee will be forfeited by the ABCM. If the ABCM
cancels the course for lack of participation or some other unforeseen event such as a storm, etc.
They will provide you a full refund, but will not take responsibility for any travel expenses related to
this course that you have incurred.
Hotel Info
Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, 201 Waterfront Street National Harbor, MD
20745, 301-965-4000. A block of rooms has been reserved for you at a daily rate of $209 plus
local taxes. The room block will cut off at these rates after 8/29/14 at which time the room rates
are higher and on availability only. Please register for your room early to ensure your room and
identify yourself as a participant of the Marriott Heart Foundation Course.
Join the Cardiovascular Nurse Practitioner Network of Members where
you will learn, share, and save at the same time. Bring a Colleague
obtain a FREE ACCNP Membership.
Registration is not complete until your course and/or exam application and payment is
received by 9/23/2014. After that date, you will be considered a walk-in and will pay a
$100 late fee for your registration at the door in the form of cash, check, or credit card.
For course and or exam contact info by email: info@accn.net
For course and or exam contact by phone: 352-293-3131
Application for Course and/or Certification Examination
Fill in every question below and please print clearly.
First, Middle, and Last Name: _____________________________________
qMale q Female
Title and Credentials: ____________________________________________
State of Issue and Professional License #(s): _________________________
Complete Home Mailing Address: __________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
Name and phone number of Practice Administrator or Supervisor:
_____________________________
Home Phone Number: _______________________
Work Email: _________________ Home Email: ____________________
Your primary areas of interest in Practice:
qAdult CD qCardiac Surgery qFamily/General Practice
qInternal Medicine qPediatrics qRadiology qCV Educator,
qCardiovascular CNS qOther: _____________________________
I wish to sit for the qCVNP Exam qCVPA Exam qCVNE Exam
qCVRN Exam on Tuesday September 30th, 2014 at 9:00am
qUndecided, I will let you know onsite.
Clinical Cardiology Review Course and/or Exam Registration Fees
My Status:
NP, PA, or RN
4 Day Course
Early Bird Fees
before 8/25/14
4 Day Course
Regular
Registration
Fees after
8/25/14 but
before 9/23/14
4 Day Course
Walk-In
Registration
Fees after
9/23/14
Exam Fees
Onsite Only
ACCNP or ACCN
Member
$875
$975
$1,115
CVNP, CVNP, CVNE
Exams - $320
Non ACCNP or
ACCN Member
$1,030
$1,130
$1,295
CVNP, CVNP, CVNE
Exams - $375
It pays to join the
membership!
Other Exams
Available
CVRN I Exams
$250
CVRN II Exams
$150 (level I is a prerequisite to level II)
Advanced EKG
Exam
$325
12-Lead EKG Exam
$250
Group Rates Available:
Course fees include: Evidence-Based Practice Guideline Updates, Course
Syllabus, Opportunity to interact and share with an Expert Faculty and colleagues
from around the country, Earn 32 CE or CME Credits Awarded, 4 Continental
Breakfasts, 4 Afternoon Refreshment Breaks, and an Opportunity to Become
Board Certified in Your Sub-Specialty in Cardiology.
Send two staff and receive an additional 2% off; send three and save
3%, send four and save 4%, send 5 and save 5% off each course
registration. Bring a colleague and get a FREE ACCNP Membership.