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Overview
Differing literature findings over the years have shown support for and lack of support for warm handoffs in influencing follow up with other healthcare team members. What does recent literature say? What does a clinical warm handoff approach look like in real life? The state of Pennsylvania has provided a pathway for warm handoff from the emergency department to substance use disorder treatment in order to fight the opioid epidemic. Learn about the process, successes, concerns, and overall outcomes of warm handoffs to drug treatment as seen in Pennsylvania’s collaborative approach to tackle substance misuse.
Goals and Learning Outcomes
- Recognize the need for a more active and specific approach in addressing the substance/opioid misuse predicament.
- Describe the intervention of a warm handoff.
- Give an example of a warm handoff approach in the state of Pennsylvania.
Course Details
Course Originally Released on : 6/6/2019
WEB370
Course Author
MHA
BS, RN
Accreditations
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Relias LLC and Independence Blue Cross Foundation. 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.
Unless stated above, the planners and authors of this course have declared no relevant conflicts of interest that relate to this educational activity. Relias LLC guarantees this educational activity is free from bias.
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