Session Summary
Admitting patients to ICU with co-existing opioid and/or alcohol substance use disorders is becoming much more common. However, few tools exist to guide teams and patients on their not-so-straightforward journey. This session explores management of substance use disorders in adult ICU, focusing on acute opioid and alcohol poisoning and withdrawal. Resuscitation priorities, and complexities associated with managing pain, sedation, spontaneous awakening trials, patient behavior and staff safety are highlighted. Case studies help ICU nurses improve knowledge about this vulnerable population.
Objectives
- Explain how severe ingestion of opioids and/or alcohol contributes to the complexity in managing critical illness or injury.
- Identify best-practice approaches for managing and preventing complications in ICU patients with coexisting substance use disorders.
- Describe the ICU nurse’s role in advocating for harm reduction and decreasing the stigma associated with substance use disorders.
Topics
MultiSystem, Pain Management, Behavioral/Psychosocial
Population
Adult
Role
Staff
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Successful Completion
Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation to be awarded contact hours AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.
Accreditation
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for 1.25 contact hours.
Disclosure
Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content will be identified by the Nurse Planner within the activity. Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content has been mitigated.
Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education only and does not imply AACN, ANCC, or CBRN approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed or displayed in conjunction with this educational activity.
Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.
Activities meet the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your own state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting your certificate of completion.
Refund Policy
Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.