Gerontological Pharmacology Package

• Antibiotic Update: Community-acquired Pneumonia 1.75
• Dermatology In the Older Adult 0.7
• Drug-Drug Interactions: Safe Prescribing to Avoid Malpractice 1.5
• Laboratory Diagnostics: A Focus on Renal Insufficiency and Failure 1.8
• Laboratory Monitoring During Drug Therapy 1
• Managing Hypertension in the Older Adult: A Contemporary Approach 1.5
• Principles of Safe Prescribing 3.7
• Update in Geriatric Prescribing: Beers Criteria, START/STOPP, and Deprescribing 1.75

Dr. Margaret Fitzgerald

DNP, FNP-BC, NP-C, FAANP, CSP, FAAN, DCC, FNAP

Dr. Margaret Fitzgerald is the founder, president, and principal lecturer with Fitzgerald Health Education Associates, (FHEA), an international provider of nurse practitioner certification preparation and continuing education for healthcare providers.

An internationally recognized presenter, Dr. Fitzgerald has provided thousands of programs for numerous professional organizations, universities, and national and state healthcare associations on a wide variety of topics including clinical pharmacology, clinical assessment, laboratory diagnosis, healthcare, and nurse practitioner practice. For more than 25 years, she has provided graduate-level pharmacology courses for NP students at a number of universities. In addition, she practices as a family nurse practitioner at the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, Lawrence, MA.

Dr. Fitzgerald also holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) from Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, where she received the Alumni Association Award for Clinical Excellence and is also an Adjunct Associate Professor. Dr. Fitzgerald is a member of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee for Neighborhood Health Plan in Boston, MA.

Dr. Fitzgerald is the recipient of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties’ Lifetime Achievement Award, given in recognition of vision and accomplishments in successfully developing and promoting the nurse practitioner role, the American College of Nurse Practitioner’s Sharp Cutting Edge Award, the Outstanding Nurse Award for Clinical Practice by the Merrimack Valley Area Health Education Council, and one of the 50 Leaders in 50 Years by the Solomont School of Nursing, UMass Lowell. In addition, Dr. Fitzgerald received the Loretta C. Ford Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Nurse Practitioner Symposium for demonstrating longevity, integrity, professional achievement, and advocacy in advanced practice nursing. She is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and a charter fellow in the Fellows of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

Dr. Victor Czerkasij

DNP, DCNP, FNP-C, CWCP, MSN, MA

Czerkasji holds a Master of Science in Nursing from Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) and a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from Southern Adventist University (Collegedale, Tennessee). He is the recipient of the Excellence in Writing award from Vanderbilt University for his research paper The Effects of Moderate to Severe Psoriasis on Human Sexuality. Czerkasij is a certified family nurse practitioner with the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) and the American Nurse Credentialing Center (ANCC). He is also a registered histotechnologist. He currently practices as a nurse practitioner at Skin Cancer and Cosmetic Dermatology, PC, Cleveland, Tennessee, and Adult and Pediatric Dermatology, Dalton, Georgia, where he applies his skills diagnosing and prescribing for many patients on a full-time basis. He also serves as a nurse practitioner during Moh’s micrographic skin cancer surgeries.

Czerkasij is a member of numerous organizations including the National Society of Histotechnology, the Dermatology Nurse Practitioner’s Association, the Southeast Association of Histotechnologists and Medical Lab Personnel, the Medical Reserve Corps of Southeast Tennessee, the Tennessee Nursing Association, the Georgia Nursing Association, and Sigma Theta Tau (the International Honor Society of Nursing). He has been published in and served as an editorial board member for the Nurse Practitioner Journal and the Journal of Nurse Practitioners. He has additional publications in Men in Nursing, Clinician Reviews and various newspapers throughout Tennessee and Georgia.

In addition to teaching at Southern Adventist University, Dalton State College and Vanderbilt University, Czerkasij has also presented at local regional and national medical centers on the topics Common Malignancies in Dermatology and the Role of Moh’s Surgery, Malignant Tumors of Dermatology and Treatment in the Adult Primary Care Setting and Dermatology in the Adult Primary Care Setting.