Tuberculosis
| Course Code: 7SENNF-PRV-09-vactb Course Price: Free Purchase CE certificate: US$5 CE: 3.20 Hours. Post Test Score Required for Successful Completion: 80% |
Course Overview:
This course discusses active and latent tuberculosis, including symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment, tuberculin skin testing, and BCG vaccine. The course also provides numerous resources related to these topics.
Course Objectives:
After completion of this learning activity, the learner will be able to:
- Discuss tuberculosis (TB), including prevalence, transmission, drug resistance, symptoms, and diagnosis.
- Identify conditions that increase the risk for TB and that increase the risk that TB infection will progress to TB disease.
- Use the classification system for TB to categories patients.
- Utilize targeted testing, anergy testing and two-step testing as appropriate.
- Correctly administer tuberculin skin tests (TSTs).
- Correctly read TSTs within the appropriate time frame.
- Interpret TST results, including results for people who are immune compromised.
- Utilize appropriate procedures for administering TSTs and live vaccines.
- Apply appropriate procedures if TST results are positive.
- Discuss BCG vaccine, including who should receive it, and possible adverse reactions.
Target Audience:
The intended audience for this training is: physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, pharmacists, medical assistants, and other paraprofessionals who either give immunizations or set immunization policy for their offices, clinics, communicable disease, or infection control programs; private and public providers, including programs that prepare pediatricians, family practice specialists, residents, and medical and nursing students.
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It has been assigned code 7SENNF-PRV-09.
This course is updated annually. Expiration date: 5/1/11
The faculty and planners of this course have no vested interests to disclose.
The course has received no commerical support.