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Breast Abscess and Breast Pain
Recorded for 2025 National Conference
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Category: 2025 National Conference, Cert Exam Domain - Assessment, Cert Exam Domain - Diagnosis, Diagnostic Tests, Family, Infectious Disease, Outpatient, Primary Care, Procedures, Recent Additions, Urgent Care (show less)
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Activity Duration| Content Expires: | July 15, 2026 (11:55 p.m. CT)
CE for this activity will not be available after this date. |
This CE activity was recorded for the 2025 AANP National Conference.  | This activity includes closed captioning. |
| Delivery Note: The content for this activity was previously presented during the 2025 AANP National Conference. If you already completed the content of this activity while attending the live or virtual conference, you should not complete this content a second time. Learners should only complete ONE delivery-method to earn credit. Completing multiple delivery options for the same activity is considered duplicate credit for the same content and will not be accepted by regulatory bodies. |
Overview
The presentation will discuss the outpatient treatment of both a breast abscess and breast pain. We will go over etiology, epidemiology, history & physical, clinical features, diagnosis, treatment options, prognosis, complications, and when to refer to specialty.
Objectives
- Determine whether there is evidence to support any single method of managing a breast abscess over any other.
- Does data support the use of empiric antibiotics in patients with a breast abscess.
- Describe how to evaluate a non-lactating patient with a breast abscess.
- Be able to list the symptoms and causes of breast pain.
- Describe the difference between cyclical, non-cyclical, and extramammary breast pain.
- Determine how to best diagnose a patient with breast pain.
- List first line and second line therapies to manage a patient with breast pain.
Speaker
Heidi Hunsel, RN, MSN, ANP-BC, FNP-C, ENP-C
Disclosure
This program was planned in accordance with AANP CE Standards and Policies.
The speaker has the following disclosures:- I have nothing to disclose.
DisclaimerIndividuals who have contributed to the CE Center (content originally from the 2025 AANP National Conference) were carefully selected for their knowledge and experience in the subject area under review. This presentation is informational only and may contain opinions of the authors from their personal experience that do not necessarily express the opinions of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). The activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings. Clinical practice is a constantly changing process and new information becomes available every day. Neither AANP nor the contributing individuals can warrant that the material will continue to be accurate, nor do they warrant that the material is completely free of errors upon publication. Attendees and participants should appraise the information presented critically and are encouraged to consult appropriate resources for any product or device mentioned in this program.
CE Credit Instructions
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0.97 Contact Hour(s) of CE,
0.1 of which may be applied towards Pharmacology
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