Educational Activities
A Guide to Accessing Educational Activities
Below is the list of all the AAHFN Educational Activities (CE and Non-CE). All activities indicate if CE is provided or not.
Accreditation Statement:
The American Association of Heart Failure Nurses (AAHFN) is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Educational Journal Club:
The AAHFN Online Journal Club provides an opportunity for nurses to review contemporary literature and translate research into practice while networking with nurses actively engaged in heart failure nursing. The topics focus on various issues impacting heart failure and heart failure nurses. The format includes both audio and blogging interaction at a convenient time for you.
18th Annual Meeting
This session will provide a high level overview of understanding the various etiologies of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
Speakers:
Dr. Farooq Sheikh, MD
Learning Outcomes:
CEUs Earned: 1.00
This session will provide an overview of metabolic syndrome and sleep disordered breathing and its effects on cardiovascular health, specifically as it relates to risk for developing heart failure.
CEUs Earned: 1.50
This session will provide a cardiovascular update on COVID-19, specifically reviewing the newest information in the field as it relates to care of patients with heart failure.
CEUs Earned: 1.00
This is an industry supported CE symposium designed to educate nurses and nurse practitioners about cardiac contractility modulation (CCM ®) and importance of screening patients for eligibility for this device.
CEUs Earned: 1.50
This session will review the fundamentals of a research paper
Speakers:
Kismet Rasmusson, DNP, FNP
Nancy Albert, PhD, CCNS
Learning Outcomes:
CEUs Earned: 1.00
This CME symposium is designed to educate nurse practitioners and nurses on lipid management and cardiovascular risk reduction in high risk patients.
Speakers:
Joette Hughes, MSN, CRNP
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Speakers:
Ashley, Moore-Gibbs, MSN
CEUs Earned: 0.75
Serious illness conversations should begin upstream as a way to increase patients quality of life and assist with the informed decision making process.
CEUs Earned: 1.00
This session will provide an overview of current available durable mechanical circulatory support and provide an overview of the most common complications of VAD therapy.
CEUs Earned: 1.50
This session, led by a nursing leader in the Valvular disease space, will provide an overview of diagnosis and the procedural treatments for mitral and aortic diseases.
Speakers:
Patricia Keegan, DNP
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Participants will define “microaggressions” and apply the definition to everyday situations.
Speakers:
Dr. Mumtaz Mustapha, MD
Learning Outcomes:
CEUs Earned: 1.00
This session will provide an advanced, high-level overview of complex cases in hemodynamics, including a case of patient with pulmonary hypertension and a patient with MCS who is experiencing aortic insufficiency.
Speakers:
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Six 15 minute presentations focusing on Innovations in Care
Speakers:
Janet Roman, DNP
Dave Davis
Shelley Thompson, PhD
Rachel Hayworth
Adenike Okeowo
Donna Moser
CEUs Earned: 1.50
Presentation of Research Abstracts
Speakers:
Kelly Stamp, PhD, NP-C
Matthew Goodwin, PharmD
John Teerlink, MD, FACC
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Provide update on identifying appropriate candidates for referrals for consideration of advanced heart failure therapies and review current data demonstrating under-referrals for specific racial, ethnic and gender populations.
CEUs Earned: 1.00
This session will provide pertinent updates to heart failure care delivery. Specifically, updates in guidelines will be provided.
Speakers:
Dr. Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD
Learning Outcomes:
CEUs Earned: 1.00
This session will provide an overview of the tests uses to assess functional status in patients with heart failure. Additionally, therapies like iron repletion will be discussed as ways to improve patients’ functional status.
CEUs Earned: 1.00
This session will provide an overview in updates in cardiogenic shock including review of the SCAI SHOCK Stage classification and provide a case scenario for a patient fluctuating between stages of shock.
CEUs Earned: 1.00
This session is designed to educate nurses and nurse practitioners about the key components to motivational interviewing.
Speakers:
Dr. Sam Sears, Ph.D
Learning Outcomes:
CEUs Earned: 0.50
This session will provide audience with an overview of current hot topics in heart failure which will include clinical trials, data or emerging therapies.
CEUs Earned: 0.75
Presentation of Practice Imporvement Abstracts
Speakers:
Jennifer Kennedy, MSN, RN
Kathaleen King-Dailey, DNP, CCRN
Tania Randell
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Genetic cardiology is an emerging field with broad opportunity.
CEUs Earned: 1.00
This session will focus on the population of patients with advanced HF (NYHA III, IIIB, IV), who are not eligible for surgical therapies (OHT or LVAD).
CEUs Earned: 1.00
This session will focus on heart failure physiology though the lens of cardiac dysfunction leading to heart failure; and the subsequent, maladaptive compensatory mechanisms that present opportunities guiding current, and novel, therapeutic considerati
CEUs Earned: 1.00
This session will provide a high level overview of topics that blend electrophysiology and heart failure including importance of maintaining normal sinus rhythm, benefits of the watchman procedure, indications for HIS bundle vs left bundle vs CRT pacin
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Worsening heart failure (WHF), characterized by development of progressively escalating symptoms and signs of HF requiring intravenous diuretic treatment in the outpatient, emergency department, or hospitalized setting, is associated with a poor progno
CEUs Earned: 1.00
This session will provide an overview of clinical inertia and it’s impact on prescribing of optimal medial therapy for patients with heart failure.
Speakers:
CEUs Earned: 1.00
This keynote session is designed to educate nurses and nurse practitioners on identifying the signs and symptoms of burnout and provides a review of self-care and self-compassion strategies to achieve work-life balance and increased contentment.
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Amyloid Bootcamp 2022
Speakers:
Chris Bell, ACNP
Learning Outcomes:
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Speakers:
Johana Fajardo, DNP, ANP-BC, CHFN, FHFSA
Learning Outcomes:
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Speakers:
Farooq Sheikh, MD
Learning Outcomes:
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Speakers:
Cindy Bither, NP
Learning Outcomes:
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Pharmacology Workshop 2022
Speakers:
Chris Bell, ACNP
Learning Outcomes:
CEUs Earned: 0.75
Speakers:
Laura Peters, DNP
CEUs Earned: 0.75
Speakers:
Robert DiDomenico, PharmD
Learning Outcomes:
CEUs Earned: 0.75
Speakers:
Marilyn A. Prasun, PhD, CCNS, CHFN, FAHA
Learning Outcomes:
CEUs Earned: 0.75
Speakers:
Robert DiDomenico, PharmD
Robert Page, PharmD
Marilyn A. Prasun, RN, PhD
Learning Outcomes:
CEUs Earned: 0.50
Speakers:
Robert Page, PharmD, MSPH
Learning Outcomes:
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Speakers:
Prateei Khazanie, MD
Learning Outcomes:
CEUs Earned: 1.50
Speakers:
Robert Page, PharmD
Learning Outcomes:
CEUs Earned: 0.75
Speakers:
Marilyn A. Prasun, RN, PhD, CCNS, CHFN, FAHA
Learning Outcomes:
CEUs Earned: 0.75
Purpose Statement
This online self-paced review course will provide an extensive review of heart failure nursing and patient care to help prepare the learner to sit for the Certified Heart Failure Nurse (CHFN) exam.
CEUs Earned: 6.50
An Overview of Lifestyle Medicine
Enduring Education Activity
Expiration Date: August 24, 2021- August 24, 2023.
1.0 Contact Hours ANCC
Member Price: Free
Non-Member Price: Free
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Cardiotoxicities and Holiday Heart
Enduring Education Activity
Expiration Date: March 7, 2022 - March 7, 2024
1.0 Contact Hours ANCC
Member Price: Free
Non-Member Price: 10.00
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Mortality and Nutrition
Enduring Education Activity
Expiration Date: August 25, 2021- August 25, 2023.
1.0 Contact Hours ANCC
Member Price: Free
Non-Member Price: 10.00
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Depression Anxiety and Heart Failure
Enduring Education Activity
Expiration Date: February 17, 2022 - February 17, 2024
1.0 Contact Hours ANCC
Member Price: Free
Non-Member Price: 10.00
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Heart Failure Overview 2021
Enduring Education Activity
Expiration Date: April 13, 2022 - April 13, 2024
1.0 Contact Hours ANCC
Member Price: Free
Non-Member Price: 10.00
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Heart Failure Prevention: Hypertension Update
Enduring Education Activity
Expiration Date: November 11, 2021- November 11, 2023.
1.0 Contact Hours ANCC
Member Price: Free
Non-Member Price: 10.00
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Big Heart, Where to Start
Enduring Education Activity
Start Date: July 1, 2021
Expiration Date: July 1, 2023
1.0 Contact Hours ANCC
Member Price: Free
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Prevention in Heart Failure in Women
Enduring Education Activity
Expiration Date: January 20, 2022 - January 20, 2024
1.0 Contact Hours ANCC
Member Price: Free
Non-Member Price: 10.00
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Purpose
The purpose of this activity is to provide a better understanding of sleep disorders, treatment options and the impact on HF patients.
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Purpose Statement
The purpose of this activity is to explore care of HF patients in rural America and identify ways to overcome barriers
Enduring Education Activity
CEUs Earned: 0.50
Enduring Education Activity
Expiration Date: June 2022
0.6 Contact Hours ANCC
Member Price: Free
Non-Member Price $10.00
Learning Outcome/ Purpose
CEUs Earned: 0.60
Enduring Education Activity
Expiration Date: August 2022
1.0 Contact Hours ANCC
Member Price: Free
Non-Member Price $10.00
Learning Outcome/ Purpose
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Enduring Education Activity
Start Date: January 1, 2021
Expiration Date: January 1, 2023
1.0 Contact Hours ANCC
Member Price: Free
Non-Member Price $10.00
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Enduring Education Activity
Start Date: March 1, 2021
Expiration Date: March 1, 2023
1.0 Contact Hours ANCC
Member Price: Free
Non-Member Price $10.00
Learning Outcomes
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Enduring Education Activity
Start Date: August 11, 2021
Expiration Date: July 31, 2023
1.0 Contact Hours ANCC
Member Price: Free
Non-Member Price $10.00
Learning Outcomes
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Enduring Education Activity
Start Date: March 21, 2022 - End Date March 21, 2024
1.25 Contact Hours ANCC
Member Price: Free
Non-Member Price $10.00
Learning Outcomes
CEUs Earned: 1.25
Enduring Education Activity
Start Date: June 6, 2022 - End Date June 6, 2024
1.0 Contact Hours ANCC
Member Price: Free
Non-Member Price $10.00
Learning Outcomes
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Enduring Education Activity
Start Date: August 23, 2022 - End Date: August 23, 2024
1.0 Contact Hours ANCC
Member Price: Free
Non-Member Price $10.00
Learning Outcomes
CEUs Earned: 1.00
The Role of Telehealth in the Care of Heart Failure Patients
Enduring Education Activity
Expiration Date: January 20, 2022- January 20, 2023.
1.0 Contact Hours ANCC
Member Price: Free
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Transforming the Care of Diabetes and Heart Disease in 2021: The Rise of the SGLT2 Inhibitors
Enduring Education Activity
Expiration Date: May 2023
1.0 Contact Hours ANCC
Member Price: Free
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Sleep and Self-care Prevention for the Nurse
Enduring Education Activity
Expiration Date: June 17, 2021-June 17, 2023.
1.0 Contact Hours ANCC
Member Price: Free
Non-Member Price: Free
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Smoking Cessation: Pathophysiology Review and Available Treatment Options
Enduring Education Activity
Start Date: April 15, 2021
Expiration Date: April 15, 2023
1.0 Contact Hours ANCC
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Topic:
Cardiovascular Disease and T2D: Defining the link between T2D and Heart Failure Bridging the Gap: Disparities in Heart Failure Associated with T2D. An Opportunity to Improve Care in the African- American Community
Topic:
Cardiovascular Disease and T2D: Defining the link between T2D and Heart Failure
Objectives:
Topic:
Cardiovascular Disease and Type 2 Diabetes: Defining the Therapeutic Crossroads
The Symposium at AAHFN 2019 was presented to help clinicians learn about appropriate patient selection, clinical assessment and timing for advanced therapies, and how and when to discuss advanced heart failure treatment options with patients and their
Heart failure (HF) is increasing in incidence globally, 5.7 million Americans live with HF and approximately half of all HF patients are women. Heart failure affects about 2.5 million women in the United States.
Topic:
GLP-1 Physiology and Evolving Clinical Data
This session reviews the impact of elevated potassium as an impediment to the optimization of RAAS Inhibition. Learn how to manage Hyperkalemia in the Heart Failure Patient and explore treatment options.
Learner Outcomes:
CEUs Earned: 1.00
Topic:
Relationship of Type 2 diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease: Opportunities for Prevention, Intervention and Mitigation
Objectives:
Topic: Remote Monitoring: Ambulatory PA Pressure Monitoring- What Does it Mean for Patients?
Objectives:
Topic:
SGLT2i Inhibitors: A Dynamic and Evolving Therapeutic Option
Objectives: