5-Week Webinar: Intro to Cannabis Therapeutics

The next Radicle Health 5-week Cannabis Therapeutics webinar begins October 8, 2019. These are the concepts that you will discuss with your colleagues and with your instructors:

• The 6 principles of essential knowledge for nurses, published by the NSCBN.
• Cannabinoids and terpenes and how nurses can identify cannabinoid and terpene profiles in chemovars to effectively treat illness and disease.
• The endogenous cannabinoid system and a description of the cell receptors, enzymes, ligands, and drug transporters relevant to cannabinoid pharmacodynamics.
• The absorption, metabolism, distribution, and excretion of cannabinoids.
• Principles of assessment and dosing when working with cannabis medicines and some best practices to consider when recommending cannabis for patients.
• Extraction methods, delivery methods, and some commonly held misconceptions about cannabis.
• Considerations unique to the senior patient population and how to use cannabis to treat illnesses and conditions typical of senior patients.
• Categories of pain, the physiologic pathways through which cannabis can provide analgesia, and information about using cannabis to help treat nociceptive, neuropathic, and nociplastic pain.
• Guidelines for helping patients identify and select safe products.
• Information about how clinicians and patients can use genetic polymorphisms as data points for predicting patient response and for mitigating the risk of adverse effects.

​Seats are limited, and this class will fill to capacity. Call 925.357.8316 to reserve your space.

Eloise Theisen, RN, MSN, AGPCNP-BC

Founder, Radicle Health and Radicle Health Clinician Network

CEP Number: 16845*

$750

7.5 hours of instruction

Over 4 hours of self-paced modules

10 CEUs