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Overview
Overview
Virtually all healthcare professionals help patients who are experiencing pain and each play a specific role in pain management.
Goals and Outcomes
Goals and Learning Outcomes
Virtually all healthcare professionals help patients who are experiencing pain; physicians, nurses, therapists, psychologists, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, radiologic technologists, and social workers each play a specific role in pain management. With such complex physiologic, emotional, and psychological interplay, no single discipline completely understands pain, and how or why it manifests in individual patients. To provide comprehensive team-based care, healthcare professionals must understand the limits of their own expertise while gaining insight from and an appreciation for that of other disciplines. This requires healthcare professionals to collaborate to better assess, understand, and manage patients with complex pain. By working together for the common goal of developing an effective, safe, comprehensive patient-centered treatment plan, patients with pain who don’t respond to usual treatments can have more positive outcomes.

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  • Describe the potential harms of uncontrolled pain, including the development of chronic pain
  • Delineate the patient’s right to have pain assessed and managed to the extent possible given the scope of services provided
  • List three roles and responsibilities of the IP team to provide ethical treatment of pain
  • Explain why pain assessment is essential for safe, effective treatment of pain
  • List different types of pain based on nature, location, duration, and intensity
  • Determine the best pain assessment tool for quantifying the amount of pain experienced based on the patient’s age and ability to communicate
  • Compare and contrast the appropriateness of selecting validated one-dimensional versus multidimensional methods to assess pain for particular settings and populations
  • Describe how preadministration pain assessment differs from reassessment of pain after an analgesic is given
  • Describe a collaborative care approach to developing a pain treatment plan based on evidence-based guidelines given the specific type of pain
  • Select appropriate therapies based on individual risk factors and comorbidities
  • Refine treatment plans in patients with complex needs based on responses, coping methods, values, and shared goals
  • Discuss the principles of safe, effective use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and adjuvant pain relievers
  • Describe the mechanism of action of at least three classes of adjuvant pain relievers
  • List three principles of safe, effective use of opioid analgesics, including required vigilant monitoring and safety points to teach patients and family
  • Identify at least three nondrug pain relief options that can be integrated into current practice and three available by referral
  • Distinguish the mechanisms by which physical modalities differ from cognitive-behavioral methods of controlling pain
  • Describe how multimodal therapy using an IP team-based approach best reduces pain and improves function
  • Refine treatment plans for patients with complex needs
  • Describe triggers to expanding the treatment team and modalities used to refine the treatment plan
  • Identify goals used to determine the safety and efficacy of a pain treatment plan

Course Termination Date: 12/31/23

Content Expiration Date: 12/31/22

Course Originally Released On: 01/01/20
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Course Details

Course Originally Released on : 1/1/2020

REL-ACU-0-60279

Course Author

Paul Arnstein

PhD, RN, FAAN

Accreditations
Accreditations

NURSES
In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791

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Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.

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Disclosures
None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.