Product Details
Striking a Balance: Understanding Pain Management and Opioids (Part 1 and Part 2)
- Credit(s): 3.3 Contact Hour(s) of CE; all of which may be applied towards Pharmacology
- Program Number: 24076781
- Original Program Date: June 26, 2024
- Duration: 3 hours 16 minutes
- Access: Available until September 30, 2025
OnDemand

Description

Released: 08/01/2024 (Content Updated on 10/30/2024)
Expires: 09/30/2025

CE for this activity will not be available after this date.

This activity includes closed captioning.

Delivery Note: The content for this activity was previously presented during the 2024 AANP National Conference. If you already completed the content of this activity (session IDs 24.2.037, 24.2.059) 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

Adverse outcomes of addiction, unintentional overdose, and death resulting from inappropriate prescribing, abuse, and misuse of opioids have emerged as major public health problems. The importance of widespread and effective pain management education in combating the opioid crisis cannot be overstated. Clinicians face inconsistent pain management practices and lack of aligned pain management guidelines. It is critical that NPs are knowledgeable about the risks associated with opioid analgesics as they pertain to their patients as well as from a public health perspective.

This course is based on the FDA Education Blueprint (Oct. 2023) and existing guidelines, including the 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain.

Objectives

Describe the pathophysiology of pain as it relates to the concepts of pain management.
Accurately assess patients in pain.
Develop a safe and effective pain treatment plan.
Identify evidence-based non-opioid options for the treatment of pain.
Identify the risks and benefits of opioid therapy.
Manage ongoing opioid therapy.
Recognize behaviors that may be associated with opioid use disorder.

Speakers
Barbara St. Marie, PhD, AGPCNP, FAANP, FAAN
Randall Hudspeth, PhD, MBA, MS, APRN-CNP, FRE, FAANP

Disclosure
This program was planned in accordance with AANP CE Standards and Policies.

The speakers have the following disclosures:

None of the Faculty, Advisors, Reviewers, or Planners have relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

This activity is supported by an independent educational grant from the Opioid Analgesics REMS Program Companies (RPC). This activity is intended to be fully compliant with the Opioid Analgesic (OA) REMS education requirements issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. For more information about the Opioid Analgesics REMS, visit https://opioidanalgesicrems.com/RpcUI/products.u. This course is based on the FDA Education Blueprint (Sept. 2018) and existing guidelines, including the 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain.

The CO*RE Collaborative:

This course does not advocate for or against the use of opioids.
We intend to help clinicians manage pain without putting vulnerable patients at risk for misuse or opioid use disorder. The goal is to keep our patients, our communities, and ourselves SAFE.

Disclaimer
Individuals who have contributed to the CE Center 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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Credits

3.3 Contact Hour(s) of CE ,
All of which may be applied towards Pharmacology

Faculty

Randall Hudspeth, PhD, MBA, MS, APRN-CNP, FRE, FAANPBio

Randall Hudspeth, PhD, MBA, MS, APRN-CNP, FRE, FAANP Bio

Dr. Randall Hudspeth has been a NP since 1986. He has 21 years of experience in pain management and substance use disorder treatment. He also served 8 years as chairman and an APRN representative for the Idaho State Board of Nursing. He is board certified in pain management and has multiple peer reviewed publications including the pain chapter in the textbook Pharmacotherapeutics for APRNs (both editions 5 and 6). He co-edited the JNP special edition on Opioids published in March 2024. He served as the first AANP pain management SIG co-chair for 3 years. He was the AANP representative to the FDA endorsed CO*RE Opioid Use Provider Education Panel for 6 years. He is a recognized national REMS faculty for safe opioid prescribing and has presented nationally for the past 16 years at the annual AANP conference.

Barbara St. Marie, PhD, AGPCNP, FAANP, FAANBio

Barbara St. Marie, PhD, AGPCNP, FAANP, FAAN Bio

Barbara St. Marie is a certified Adult and Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner, Pain Management Certified through ANCC. Dr. St. Marie has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and completed her Postdoctoral studies in Pain and Associated Symptoms at the College of Nursing, University of Iowa. Dr. St. Marie has extensive clinical and research experience in pain management and substance use disorder as coexisting conditions. Doctoral and postdoctoral work focused on chronic pain management in those receiving opioid therapy who may or may not have substance use disorder. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the College of Nursing, University of Iowa.

Materials

	Post Test Review (3) (165 KB)
	Handout - Presentation Slides (51) (6 MB)

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