Title: HT4 - Screenings: Useful or Costly, and Could It Be More Confusing?

Disciplines: Women’s Health (WH), Advanced Practice (AP)

Learning Objectives:
  1. List two components of the evidence based guidelines for screening for mammography, cervical cancer and breast cancer.
  2. Discuss evidence based recommendations for the screening of Vitamin D levels, and appropriate prescribing regimens.
  3. Summarize issues related to the financial impact of recommended screenings on the health care system and to the patient.
Submission Description:
Recommended guidelines for screening for breast, colon, osteoporosis and cervical cancer are revised often and are confusing. This presentation will clear the fog, along with discussing the best method for testing and determining treatment options for the wonder drug - Vitamin D.
Sunday, June 24, 2012: 3:30 PM-4:45 PM
Annapolis (Gaylord National Harbor)
Moderator:
Kathleen A. Hale, RN, BSN, MS, NE-BC
Presenting Author:
D'Ann Somerall, DNP, FNP-BC