Pharmacology Made Insanely Easy is back again by popular request.
Spend one fun-filled day learning easy strategies to help you with critical thinking and clinical reasoning situations.
Accelerated Learning techniques and the Educational
Theory of Cognitive Learning are the framework for this workshop. You will learn to prioritize medications and nursing care, associate learning by using mnemonics, music, active learning, images and color. You will be able to remember those drugs while having fun. You will improve your test-taking skills and boost your confidence.
* Snow Date: Thursday, April 7, 2016
RNs, LPNs, nursing faculty, RN Refreshers, nurse practitioners, medication techs and student nurses
8:30 Registration / Check-in
9:00 Pharmacology Revisions on the NCLEX-RN ®
10:30 Break
10:45 Drug-drug and Drug-food Interactions
12:00 Lunch (on your own)
You are welcome to bring your lunch; a refrigerator is available for your use. Also, one of several food trucks is at MAHEC almost every day.
12:45 Test Taking Strategies for Pharmacology
2:15 Break
2:30 Clinical Decision Making in Pharmacology
4:00 Adjourn
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
• List the revisions in pharmacology on the NCLEX-RN ®
• Discuss the major drug-drug interactions and the rationale
• Identify test-taking strategies for NCLEX ® and success
• Prioritize clinical decision-making in relation to pharmacology and new NCLEX ® Standards
Professional Responsibility: The licensed nurse is personally responsible and accountable for ensuring that her/his nursing practice and conduct meet the standards of the profession and comply with the Nursing Practice Act.
Knowledge-Based Practice: The licensed nurse is personally responsible and accountable for having the knowledge and skills for safe, competent nursing practice.
Date:
Registration:
Program:
Friday, March 4, 2016
8:30 am - 9:00 am
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration Fee: RN and LPN
RN Refresher
$115
$75
Student $75
(proof of enrollment is due at check-in)
Location: MAHEC Mary C. Nesbitt Biltmore Campus
121 Hendersonville Rd. Asheville, NC 28803
Loretta Manning, MSN, RN, GNP
Loretta is the President and Co-Founder of I CAN Publishing ® ,
Inc., an organization that specializes in services and resources to simplify complex information for nursing students and faculty.
She is a nurse practitioner with a clinical background in pediatric trauma. Loretta is an award-wining instructor that has taught in ADN, BSN and MSN programs. She has been a Director of
Children’s and Woman’s Services at Willis Knighton Medical
Center in Shreveport, LA, and serves as a consultant in many schools of nursing.
Loretta earned her MSN in nursing from Indiana University, BSN from Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana, and Nurse
Practitioner Certificate from The University of North Carolina in
Greensboro, NC. She is an international speaker and a sought after resource for faculty development and student presentations.
Her expertise is in developing nursing faculty particularly in the areas of NCLEX ® , item writing, teaching strategies and pharmacology focusing on integrating patient safety and Joint
Commission Standards in both clinical and the classroom.
Loretta has worked both nationally and internationally with nursing students in preparation for the NCLEX ® .

5.75 CNE Contact Hours
The Mountain Area Health Education Center’s Department of Nursing Education is an Approved Provider of continuing nursing education by the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing
Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Participants must attend entire activity or activities to receive credit. No partial credit is given for this activity.
MAHEC adheres to the ANCC/ACCME Standards regarding industry support to continuing nursing education. Disclosure of presenters, planners, and commercial support relationships, if any, will be made known at the time of the activity.
The Mountain Area Health Education Center’s Department of Nursing operates in an ethical manner and complies with all applicable local, regional, and state or national laws and regulations as outlined in our Corporate Compliance Plan.
CEU: The Mountain Area Health Education Center designates this continuing education activity as meeting the criteria for
0.6 CEUs as established by the National Task force on the
Continuing Education Unit. You must attend the entire activity or activities to receive CEUs.
Early registration fee is $115 for RNs and LPNs; $75 for RN
Refreshers; and $75 for students if received by February 26, 2016.
For registrations received after February 26th, the total cost will be the registtation fee + $15.00. Registration fee includes administrative costs and educational materials.
MAHEC has a pay-up-front policy for all CE programs. The only exceptions will be for pre-approved programs where an individual payment plan is appropriate. Registrations received without accompanying payment will not be processed and participants who have not paid the course fee will not be admitted into the program.
Cancellations received at least two weeks in advance of the program date will receive a full refund unless otherwise noted. Cancellations received between two weeks and up to 48 hours prior to the program date will receive a 70% refund unless otherwise noted. No refunds will be given for cancellations received less than 48 hours prior to the program date. All cancellations must be made in writing (fax, mail, or email). Substitutes can be accommodated in advance of the program.
121 Hendersonville Rd., Asheville, NC, 28803
Directions are available on our website, under the Continuing Education tab: www.mahec.net.
Have a question?
Special Services:
828-257-4485
CE Planner:
Ronnie Metcalf, EdD, RN, ONC ronnie.metcalf@mahec.net 828-257-4478
Registration Information:
Fax Registration:
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Email:
828-257-4475
828-257-4768 www.mahec.net registration@mahec.net
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For registrations received by 2/26:
 $115 RN and LPN
 $75 RN Refresher
 $75 Student
(proof of enrollment is due at check-in)
After 2/26:
 $130
 $90
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