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Overview
This course educates healthcare providers on methods to safely and responsibly prescribe controlled substances to patients.Goals and Learning Outcomes
Healthcare providers face many difficulties when prescribing controlled substances for management of acute and chronic pain, anxiety disorder, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The pressure to adequately treat patients suffering from these conditions, coupled with current public health problems such as rising drug overdose rates, creates a major dilemma for healthcare providers. Determining which patients could benefit from the prescription of controlled substances and which patients may suffer adverse consequences by taking these medications is not always easy.
The goal of this course is to educate healthcare providers on methods to safely and responsibly prescribe controlled substances to patients.
- Discuss controlled substances and their relation to the current opioid epidemic
- Identify roles of commonly prescribed controlled substances in certain disorders and diseases
- Describe ways in which nurses, pharmacists, physicians, and other healthcare professionals can collaborate to ensure responsible prescribing of controlled substances
- Identify strategies for initiating opioid therapy in patients with acute pain, and the relative potency of different class agents.
- Recall federal requirements associated with prescribing different schedules of controlled substances for pain management, anxiety disorder, or ADHD.
- Describe strategies employed by prescribers to mitigate risks associated with use of controlled substances.
Course Details
Course Originally Released on : 4/1/2022
REL-ACU-0-PPCS
Course Author
MD
PharmD, BCPS
MSN, RN
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
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.
CEBroker
Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Examiners For Registered Professional Nurses
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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.