Product Details
Pain Management and Opioids: A Patient-Centered Approach
- Credit(s): 3 Contact Hour(s) of CE; all of which may be applied towards Pharmacology
- Program Number: 25107549
- Original Program Date: June 20, 2025
- Duration: 2 hours 27 minutes
- Access: Available until October 31, 2026
OnDemand

Description

Released: 11/01/2025
Expires: 10/31/2026

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

This activity includes closed captioning.

Delivery Note: The content for this activity was presented during the 2025 AANP National Conference and offered in the CE Center under course ID 25057207. If you already completed the content of this activity (session ID 25.4.066, course ID 25057207) while attending the live or virtual conference or in the CE Center, 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

This case-based curriculum focuses on safe and effective pain management, particularly addressing opioid use disorder (OUD). It emphasizes a biopsychosocial approach to patient assessment, incorporating non-pharmacological and pharmacological strategies. The curriculum covers recognizing pain types, assessing OUD risk, developing individualized treatment plans, and utilizing shared decision-making. It also details the risks and benefits of opioid therapy, including strategies for opioid rotation, tapering, and managing adverse events like opioid-induced hyperalgesia and respiratory depression. Finally, it highlights the importance of ongoing patient monitoring and collaboration with specialists.

Objectives

Recognize the origin(s) and types of pain as they relate to pain management and opioid use disorder (OUD).
Fully assess persons experiencing pain, including risk for OUD.
Develop safe and effective pain management plans using nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic (non-opioid or opioid) options.
Partner with patients to reduce risks when taking opioid therapy.

Speakers
Randall Hudspeth, PhD, MBA, MS, APRN-CNP, FRE, FAANP
Theresa Mallick-Searle, MS, PMGT-BC, ANP-BC

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

Read this activity description, including objectives and disclosures.
Complete the Pretest associated to the activity.
Complete the educational content:
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- Complete the post-test.
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Additional Information
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Credits

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.

Theresa Mallick-Searle, MS, PMGT-BC, ANP-BC, FAANPBio

Theresa Mallick-Searle, MS, PMGT-BC, ANP-BC, FAANP Bio

Theresa is an Adult Nurse Practitioner with over 29 years’ experience at Stanford Health Care in Palo Alto, California. She received her graduate degree from University of California, San Francisco. Her current clinical practice within the Division of Pain Medicine focuses primarily on evaluation and treatment of individuals suffering from acute and chronic pain conditions in both the acute care and outpatient settings. Theresa is a nationally recognized clinician, speaker, author, and thought leader in the field of pain management.

Materials

	Handout - Presentation Slides (49) (5 MB)
	Post Test Review (2) (155 KB)

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