Member Price: FREE
Available: January 1, 2025
Title: Lung Cancer Screening
Description:
This continuing education activity regarding lung cancer screening (LCS) will include:
Background & Significance of Lung Cancer
The 5 Ws and 1 H that all healthcare providers should know about LCS & Management including:
1. Who should undergo lung cancer screening?
2. What is lung cancer screening?
3. Where should lung cancer screening be done?
4. When should lung cancer screening commence, when should it be repeated, and when should screening conclude?
5. Why is lung cancer screening important to patients, providers, and the community at large?
6. How should healthcare providers manage lung cancer screening results and incorporate smoking cessation treatment?
Smoking Cessation offered for all current smokers who undergo lung cancer screening
Local, State, and National LCS Resources
Presenter: Dr. Angela Stewart, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC, AOCNP, TTS
Dr. Stewart has taught in the DNP program at the Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing as adjunct faculty in the summer of 2020 and started full-time as the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Coordinator in May of 2021. Specializing in acute care and oncology, she teaches students through online lectures, on campus immersions, and in clinical settings. Her lectures are informed by many years of professional experience practicing as an acute care NP in hematology and oncology where she still practices at Highlands Oncology Group in Fayetteville, AR.
Release Date: January 1, 2025
Expiration Date: January 1, 2026
Learner Outcome:
The aim of this continuing education activity is for learners to increase awareness, knowledge, and practice on how to manage high-risk patients utilizing lung cancer screening guidelines for early detection in order to improve patient outcomes when lung cancer is amenable to surgical excision and possible cure. These learning outcomes will be measured by learners scoring 80% or higher on the post-test.
Accreditation:
Learners will be awarded 1 Contact Hour. Completion of the course and evaluation are required.
Provider Statement:
Texas Nurse Practitioners is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Louisiana State Nurses Association - Approver, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. If you are required to use an activity number or provider number on certificates, please use LSNA Provider N003232
Disclosures:
No disclosures exist for presenters or Nurse Planners of this Educational Activity
