Earn Up To .75 Contact Hours With Our New Courses on Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) Novel Targets, Novel Agents: How Our Newest Biologics Fit Into the PsA Treatment Paradigm Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to: Assess the current use of...
A chapter from HANDLING THE HARD QUESTIONS: What Our Patients Are Asking Us About Rheumatic Disease Read and download this booklet on our Workforce Resource homepage Each day, rheumatology nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants field dozens of questions...
A chapter from HANDLING THE HARD QUESTIONS: What Our Patients Are Asking Us About Rheumatic Disease Read and download this booklet on our Workforce Resource homepage Each day, rheumatology nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants field dozens of questions...
A chapter from HANDLING THE HARD QUESTIONS: What Our Patients Are Asking Us About Rheumatic Disease Read and download this booklet on our Workforce Resource homepage Each day, rheumatology nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants field dozens of questions...
I first met AP, a 48-year-old woman, about 8 years ago when I was new at my current rheumatology practice. From the very start of our relationship, AP has been one of my favorite patients, although she has, unfortunately, had her ups and downs with the management of...
A few months ago, a new patient, SR, came into our office with a long and varied history of rheumatic disease. A 34-year-old Caucasian male with a nearly 20-year history of plaque, scalp, and nail psoriasis, SR was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) a decade...
The treat-to-target approach to care is a hot topic in medicine and is now widely accepted as a best practice in our patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We read about it in the literature and hear about it at conferences regularly. The evidence in other...
A very long time ago in my nursing school days, I learned that each kidney has approximately 1 million nephrons comprised of convoluted tubules. Their job is to filter waste products. Although it sometimes may feel like it, we really do not have to traverse 1 million...
I have been caring for KN, a 57-year-old woman with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) for approximately 9 months. When she initially presented to our office, she had oligoarthritis, sacroiliitis, and nail involvement. Her medication history included an inadequate response to...
When I started in rheumatology practice 11 years ago, we had few options at our disposal to treat patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA). The initial batch of anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) inhibitors had arrived, but they were the only “big guns” out there....