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Target Audience This activity is designed to meet the educational needs of physicians, nurses, and advanced practice clinicians who manage patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Program Description MS care providers need to continually update best practices and procedures to accommodate guideline changes, research developments, and new therapeutic strategies. Among the newer guidelines are the updated …

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Management of MS in a pediatric patient— especially in a younger child—requires a careful approach that differs in many respects from that of adults with MS. There is a need to consider the impact of treatment on the developing immune system and brain and over a longer-term disease course. This special supplement addresses the challenges …

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Target Audience This activity is designed to meet the educational needs of physicians, nurses, and advanced practice clinicians who manage patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Program Description In MS management, the concepts of NEDA for “no evidence of disease activity” and MEDA for “minimal evidence of disease activity” have emerged in an attempt to define …

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Target Audience The target audience for this activity is physicians, physician assistants, nursing professionals, and other health-care providers involved in the management of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Learning Objectives 1) Describe new approaches to optimize adherence through shared decision-making and patient engagement principles. 2) Integrate shared decision-making principles and models into clinical practice. Accreditation …

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Nurse practitioners in primary care settings are on the first line to recognize motor, sensory, and cognitive deficits that may help establish a diagnosis of MS. While referral to a neurologist is often made, patients with chronic illnesses such as MS often return to the primary care setting for management. In their multi-faceted roles of …

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For many patients with MS, current disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) can provide control of disease activity especially when more aggressive treatment is initiated early in the disease course. The CE-certified supplement, Risk-Benefit Analysis and Personalized Treatment in Multiple Sclerosis: Basing Treatment Goals on the Latest Evidence, provides clinicians with the most up-to-date evidence on current and …

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Release Date: 6/30/2020 Expiration Date: 6/29/2021 The third edition of the Advances in Multiple Sclerosis Primer provides an educational experience featuring interactive cases and expert faculty commentary on a variety of MS topics. The content contains many recent updates to the second edition, as well as new sections including diagnosis and continuity of care. Click …

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May 16, 2018 from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm Writing for scientific publication and presentation in MS nursing is essential to disseminate evidence, share innovations with others, provide new information to keep nurses updated, and share finding of outcomes data collection and research studies. Writing is hard work but the process can be simplified by …

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Release date: February 15, 2018Valid through: February 15, 2020 Earn 1.5 continuing education credits! Description Comorbidity is an area of increasing interest in MS and evidence has suggested comorbidity is associated with diagnostic delays, misinterpretation of relapses, disability progression, health-related quality of life, and progression of lesion burden on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In chronic diseases, it …

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Target Audience The target audience for this activity is physicians, physician assistants, nursing professionals, and other health-care providers involved in the management of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Learning Objectives 1) Apply new information about MS to a comprehensive individualized treatment plan for patients with MS 2) Integrate the team approach into long-term planning in …

Continue reading “IJMSC: A Framework of Care in Multiple Sclerosis, Part 2: Symptomatic Care and Beyond”