2025 FNPN Annual Conference - "Symphony of Care" (22.5 CE)

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Thursday, August 21, 2025

• 7:30am - 11:59pm

  ***ADDITIONAL 10 VIRTUAL CONTACT HOURS FOR ALL LIVE 2025 ANNUAL CONFERENCE ATTENDEES***

  10.0 CE Credits

  (1) 2025 Updates on Highly Effective Anti-Obesity Medications: Key Insights and Must-Know Safety Guidelines - Clelia Lima, DNP, APRN, FNP-C
  (2) Restful Nights: Strategies for Managing Sleep Disorders in Older Adults - Tammy Sadighi, DNP, APRN-FNP, MBA, Amy Dudley, DNP, ARNP; Bisnauth Churaman, DNP, APRN-FNP; Loureen Downes, PhD, APRN-FNP
  (3) Educating patients with Atrial Fibrillation (AF) on screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) with the STOP-Bang Questionnaire (SBQ) - Jessica Ann Hernandez, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC
  (4) Creating Accessible and Affordable Healthcare through APRN-Owned Private Practices - Jessica Chung, DNP, NP-C
  (5) Enhancing Lung Transplant Outcomes through Early Referral Practices - Yailin Homen, APRN, MSN, AGACNP- BC
  (6) Examining the State of Telehealth in Providing Mental Health and Substance Use Services post COVID-19 - Marie Smith-East, PhD, DNP, PMHNP-BC. EMT-B
  (7) How Mindfulness Impacts Aggregate Stress Levels In a Healthcare Organization - Coralis M Pena Santana, APRN-BC

• 7:30am - 9:00am

  Registration Open for Pre-Conference Workshops

  Registration desk will open at 7:30am for our 2025 Pre-Conference Workshops. If you are joining us for the 2025 Annual Conference (not Pre-Conference Workshops), the Registration Desk will open at 11am for General Conference Attendees.

  Location: North Tower Registration

• 8:00am - 11:00am

  Pre-Conference Workshop 1: Pharmacology

  Michelle Wade MSN/ED, APRN, ACNPC-AG, NP-C & Margaret A. Fitzgerald, DNP, FNP-BC, NP-C, FAANP, CSP, FAAN, DCC, FNAP
  3.0 CE Credits

  8:00am - 9:30am - "Deprescribing for the Busy Primary Care Provider - Hands On Workshop" - Michelle Wade MSN/ED, APRN, ACNPC-AG, NP-C
  9:30am - 11:00am - "Drug Updates" - Margaret A. Fitzgerald, DNP, FNP-BC, NP-C, FAANP, CSP, FAAN, DCC, FNAP

  This activity is approved for 3.0 contact hour(s) of continuing education (which includes 3.0 hour(s) of pharmacology) by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners®. Activity ID# 25087377. This activity was planned in accordance with AANP Accreditation Standards and Policies.

  Location: Aruba/Bahamas

• 8:00am - 11:15am

  Pre-Conference Workshop 2: The Obesity Society’s Best Practices in Obesity Management

  Thomas M. George, Jr., DNP, FNP-C, NASM-CPT, FOMA & Angela Ritten, DNP, ARNP, FNP-BC
  3.0 CE Credits

  Objectives:
  1.Describe obesity as a chronic and progressive disease based on its pathophysiology.
  2.Utilize effective nutrition and physical activity counseling and behavioral therapy to optimize weight reduction in patients on obesity medications.
  3.Select an appropriate medication to treat obesity based on efficacy, safety, dosing, and patient characteristics.
  4. Optimize patient engagement in comprehensive obesity management through non-stigmatizing and unbiased communication and care.

  This activity is approved for 3 hours of continuing education by the Florida Nurse Practitioner Network, through CE Broker, #50-33647. This activity was planned in accordance with FNPN’s Education Program Policies and Procedures.

  Location: Florida Ballroom

• 8:00am - 3:00pm

  Pre-Conference Workshop 3: Commercial Motor Vehicle Medical Examiner Training Course

  Jean Aertker, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, FAANP & Wendy Paracka, DNP, APRN, NP-C, FAANP
  6.0 CE Credits

  **LUNCH ON YOUR OWN BREAK FROM 11:00AM TO 12:00PM**
  Objectives:
  1. Compare FMCSA statutes, standards, and guidelines for determining driver certification outcome
  2. Recognize the eight core curriculum elements required for the Medical Examiner Training Course
  3. Understand the physical demands for a commercial motor vehicle driver

  This activity is approved for 6 hours of continuing education by the Florida Nurse Practitioner Network, through CE Broker, #50-33647. This activity was planned in accordance with FNPN’s Education Program Policies and Procedures.

  Location: Grand Cayman

• 10:00am - 12:00pm

  FNPN Legislative Strategy Team Meeting

  **By Invite Only**

  Location: Puerto Rico

• 11:00am - 12:00pm

  Lunch on your own

• 11:00am - 5:00pm

  Registration OPEN for 2025 Annual Conference

  Registration/Check In will open at 11am on Thursday August 21, 2025 at 11am for the 2025 Annual Conference!

  Location: North Tower Registration

• 12:00pm - 12:10pm

  Welcome & Day 1, Round 1 Trivia!

  President Deb Tedesco & Education Director Jenn Kuretski

  Location: Florida Ballroom

• 12:10pm - 1:10pm

  Readiness for the Care of Persons Living with HIV/AIDS Among APRNs in Primary Care Settings

  LaShonda Coulbertson, DNP, MPH, APRN, FNP-BC, AMB-BC, AAHIVS
  1.0 CE Credit

  Objectives:
  1) To provide participants a summary of the findings of a needs assessment survey of Florida APRNs in primary care
  2) Increase awareness of free, accredited CEUs for enhanced practice and prescribing (Rx) in the care and prevention of HIV/AIDS
  3) To collaborate with participants to discuss opportunities for resource aggregation to improve community health in their respective practice areas.

  Location: Florida Ballroom

• 1:20pm - 2:20pm

  Thursday Featured Speaker: Nursing Innovation: Transformation of the Past, Present & Future

  Rebecca Love RN, BS, MSN, FIEL
  1.0 CE Credit

  Location: Florida Ballroom

• 2:30pm - 3:00pm

  Rapid Fire Presentations - Two 15 Minute Presentations

  Dawn Mutchko, DNP, APN, FNP-C, CENP, CGNC, EBP-C, CPHQ, CLSSGB, FNAP Michelle Duane, DNP, APRN, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, AGACNP-BC
  0.5 CE Credits

  2:30pm - 2:45pm - “Innovation in Academic-Practice Partnerships: Advancing Education, Practice, and Project Initiatives" - Dawn Mutchko, DNP, APN, FNP-C, CENP, CGNC, EBP-C, CPHQ, CLSSGB, FNAP
  2:45pm - 3:00pm - “Building Bonds, Fueling Success: The Art of Cultivating APP Care Teams" - Michelle Duane, DNP, APRN, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, AGACNP-BC

  Location: Florida Ballroom

• 3:10pm - 4:10pm

  Supporting People with Dementia & Empowering NPs: The GUIDE Benefit

  Adam Perry, MD
  1.0 CE Credit

  Objectives:
  1) Describe the epidemiology and diagnostic criteria for dementia, focusing on patient demographics, prevalence, current diagnostic practices, and utilization trends.
  2) Outline the care delivery elements and operational structure of the GUIDE benefit, including assessment, care navigation, harm reduction, and caregiver support components.
  3) Discuss partnership strategies for nurse practitioners in Florida to support people living with dementia, caregivers, and their organizations.

  Location: Florida Ballroom

• 4:20pm - 5:20pm

  Cultivating a HAPPY, HEALTHY Future at the Intersection of NP Practice, Education, Research, and Policy

  Kathleen Wilson, PhD, APRN, CPNP, FNP- BC, BC-ADM, FAANP, FNAP, DipACLM
  1.0 CE Credit

  Objectives:
  1) Identify at least three (3) reasons why it is important to create a culture of health promotion through the lens of lifestyle medicine for NPs now and in the future.
  2) Apply three (3) lifestyle medicine recommendations to support your role as an NP in practice.
  3) Evaluate at least three (3) implications for lifestyle medicine principles in NP education, policy, and research.

  Location: Florida Ballroom

• 5:30pm - 6:30pm

  Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Lifespan Approach to Treatment

  Cindy Parsons DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC, FAANP
  1.0 CE Credit

  Objectives:
  1) Describe the presentation, etiology and epidemiology of ADHD over the lifespan.
  2) Apply the Chronic Care model as a framework for Patient Centered Care
  3) Integrate Evidence Based strategies (pharmacologic, behavioral and support services) into the comprehensive care of individuals with ADHD
  4) Evaluate current pharmacologic approaches to the treatment of ADHD symptoms

  Location: Florida Ballroom

• 6:30pm - 6:50pm

  Day 1, Round 2 Trivia!

  Education Director Jenn Kuretski

  Location: Florida Ballroom

• 7:00pm - 8:00pm

  SAL Meeting

  FNPN State Academic Liasions (SALs)
  1.0 CE Credit

  **By Invite Only**

  Location: Puerto Rico

Friday, August 22, 2025

• 7:00am - 7:45am

  SOS Meeting

  FNPN State of the Science (SOS) Leaders

  **By Invitation Only**

  Location: Puerto Rico

• 7:00am - 3:30pm

  Registration Desk Open

  Registration Desk will open at 7am on Friday August 22, 2025.

  Location: North Tower Registration

• 7:30am - 9:00am

  Breakfast - Product Theater- PrEP today. Data discussions on an HIV-1 PrEP option

  During this educational session, attendees will learn about an alternative PrEP option to help prevent HIV in their patients. The program will review important information, clinical data, and dosing and administration, and provide guidance on identifying patients who would benefit. In addition, the program will also feature a Patient Ambassador who will share their personal experience with this PrEP option and discuss how it impacted their life.

  Location: Florida Ballroom

• 8:00am - 8:45am

  APP Leaders Meeting

  FNPN Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Leaders

  **By Invite Only**

  Location: Grand Cayman

• 9:05am - 9:15am

  Day 2 Welcome & Day 2, Round 1 Trivia

  President Deb Tedesco & Education Director Jenn Kuretski

  Location: Florida Ballroom

• 9:15am - 10:45am

  Keynote Presentation - "What would Dr. Ford say? Finding Your NP Voice."

  Margaret A. Fitzgerald, DNP, FNP-BC, NP-C, FAANP, CSP, FAAN, DCC, FNAP
  1.5 CE Credits

  Location: Florida Ballroom

• 10:45am - 11:45am

  Exhibitors/Ribbon Cutting/Networking

  Join us in the Exhibit Hall for our Ribbon Cutting and the opening of our 2025 Exhibit Hall! Lolita Melhado PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, ACHPN will also be in the exhibit hall signing her recent book.

  Location: Keys Foyer, Caribbean Foyer, Key West, St Thomas, West Indies

• 11:45am - 1:00pm

  Lunch - Product Theater for Zepbound® (tirzepatide) Injection

  Laurie Klipfel, MSN, ANP-BC, CDCES, WCC, is an RN care manager at the VA St. Louis Health Care System in St. Louis, Missouri. She is also a nurse practitioner at Diabetes & Endocrinology Specialists in Chesterfield, Missouri, and a featured national speaker for PESI HealthCare in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Ms. Klipfel earned her master’s degree in nursing at the University of Missouri–St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri. She is a board-certified adult nurse practitioner, wound care specialist, and diabetes care and education specialist. Ms. Klipfel is a member of St. Louis Nurses in Advanced Practice and the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. She is also a past president of the St. Louis Association of Diabetes Educators. Her research has been published in Hospital Pharmacy

  Join a presentation from one of your peers on the efficacy, safety, dosing, and administration of once-weekly Zepbound®. Learn about how to get appropriate patients started on this treatment. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions at the conclusion of the program.

  Program Objectives
  Upon completion of the program, participants will have learned the following about Zepbound:

  · Mechanism of action

  · Clinical trial data, including efficacy and safety findings

  · Dosing and administration information

  · How to get appropriate patients started

  Location: Florida Ballroom

• 1:00pm - 2:00pm

  Exhibitors/Networking/Poster Session

  Michelle Duane, DNP, APRN, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, AGACNP-BC & Wanda Diaz, PharmD, LND, CDCES & Erick Suarez APRN, FNP-BC, AAHIV-M (MSN) & Christine Fechter, DNPc, MSN, APRN, AGPCNP-C & Charrita Ernewein, PhD, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, SANE-A, FAANP & Christina Dzioba, PhD, APRN, WHNP-BC, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, C-EFM, CNE & Romuald Delacroix, DNP, FNP-C & James Crumpton, DNP, MSN, Autonomous APRN, FNP-BC
  1.0 CE Credit

  Poster Session:
  1) Implementing Patient-Centered Advanced Care Planning Screening and Education in and Adult Safety Net Clinic - Michelle Duane, DNP, APRN, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, AGACNP-BC
  2) The Heart and Kidney Connection - Wanda Diaz, PharmD, LND, CDCES
  3) Closing the PrEP Gap to End the HIV Epidemic - Erick Suarez APRN, FNP-BC, AAHIV-M (MSN)
  4) Assessing 'A Matter of Balance' Program Impact on Older Adults' Fall Perception
  5) Victim to Criminal: The Incarceration of Minors "Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking
  6) Hyperglycemia is more complicated than Diabetes 1, 2, and 3 (Pregnancy)
  7) Identifying ACE Inhibitor Induced Visceral Angioedema in Primary Care Settings: A case study
  (8) Implementing Best Practice Guidelines for Overweight and Obese Adults in Medically Supervised Weight Loss

  Location:
  Poster Session Located Near North Tower Registration Desk
  Exhibit Hall Located in Keys Foyer, Caribbean Foyer, Key West, St Thomas, West Indies

• 2:00pm - 2:10pm

  Day 2, Round 2 Trivia & Announcements

  President Deb Tedesco & Education Director Jenn Kuretski

  Location: Florida Ballroom

• 2:10pm - 3:10pm

  NSO Presentation - "Malpractice Insights: Top Nurse Practitioner Liability Concerns"

  Roxanne Filson, MBA
  1.0 CE Credit

  This interactive session will use case studies and claim data from NSO and CNA's updated Nurse Practitioner Liability Claim Report to provide NPs with immediately implementable practices that they can use to help protect themselves against allegations of malpractice or unprofessionalism.

  Location: Florida Ballroom

• 3:20pm - 4:20pm

  Sleep is Good Medicine: Best Practices in Applying Pharmacological and Integrative Medicine Approaches

  Tom Schlepko DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC, AAHIVS
  1.0 CE Credit

  Location: Florida Ballroom

• 4:20pm - 4:30pm

  Day 2, Round 3 Trivia & Announcements

  President Deb Tedesco & Education Director Jenn Kuretski

  Location: Florida Ballroom

• 4:30pm - 6:30pm

  President's Networking Event & Exhibitors

  Join President Deb Tedesco for our 2025 President's Networking Event! Network, share ideas and meet new colleagues at this event.

  Location: Keys Foyer, Caribbean Foyer, Key West, St Thomas, West Indies

• 7:00pm - 9:00pm

  PC Event - A Night at the Grammy's

  Register here: https://fnpn.enpnetwork.com/nurse-practitioner-events/146083-a-night-at-the-grammys-fnpn-pc-fundraiser#!info

  Location: Hawk's Landing

Saturday, August 23, 2025

• 7:00am - 10:15am

  Registration Desk Open

  Registration desk will open at 7am on Saturday August 23, 2025.

  Location: North Tower Registration

• 7:00am - 8:30am

  Breakfast - Product Theater- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.

  Roger Rivera, DNP, FNP, PMHNP

  One Patient's Journey With AUVELITY: A Rapid-Acting Antidepressant That Modulates Both Glutamatergic and Monoaminergic Pathways

  Location: Florida Ballroom

• 7:00am - 9:00am

  Exhibitors

  Stop by our 2025 Exhibit Hall and learn more from our Exhibitors! Grow your professional network by meeting with our industry colleagues.

  Location: Keys Foyer, Caribbean Foyer, Key West, St Thomas, West Indies

• 9:00am - 9:15am

  Day 3, Round 1 Trivia

  President Deb Tedesco & Education Director Jenn Kuretski

  Location: Florida Ballroom

• 9:15am - 10:15am

  Featured Speaker Presentation- "Advancing the Role of the Nurse Practitioner - Battling Misinformation, Disinformation and How We Can Help Educate the Public"

  Valerie J. Fuller, PhD, DNP, AGACNP-BC, FNP-BC, FNAP, FAANP
  1.0 CE Credit

  Location: Florida Ballroom

• 10:25am - 12:25pm

  FNPN Annual Membership Meeting

  President Deb Tedesco and the 2025 FNPN Board of Directors will lead our FNPN 2025 Annual Membership Meeting.
  2.0 CE Credits

  Location: Florida Ballroom

• 12:25pm - 12:45pm

  Day 3, Round 2 Trivia & Wrap Up

  President Deb Tedesco & Education Director Jenn Kuretski

  Location: Florida Ballroom

• 1:00pm - 4:30pm

  Post-Conference Workshop: Everything You Need to Start Your NP Practice

  Dr. Monica Barfield, DNP, APRN, AGACNP-BC, FNP-BC & Dr. Lynn Rapsilber, DNP, APRN, ANP-BC, FAANP & Dr. Wendy Wright, DNP, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, FNAP
  3.0 CE Credits

  Your Guide to NP Business Ownership in Florida.
  3 Hours. All the Tools. All the Experts.

  Objectives:
  1. Understand key concepts in billing, credentialing, revenue cycle management, and telehealth.
  2. Review strategies for financial growth and value-based care optimization.
  3. Explore the process of opening and operating a nurse practitioner–led practice in Florida.

  Location: Aruba/Bahamas

  1:00-1:30 Lunch Provided