On a Scale of 1-10: Managing Acute on Chronic Pain in the Inpatient Setting

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

This advanced session focuses on the challenges nurses face when a patient with chronic pain presents with an episode of acute pain from injury, surgery or cancer, or a flare of their current condition. Management of acute and chronic pain using a multi-modal approach, management of acute withdrawal from alcohol and opiates from admission through discharge, along with prescribing guidelines for acute and chronic pain are discussed in this session.

Objectives

Verbalize the challenges of treating a patient with acute and chronic pain, including those experiencing acute alcohol and opiate withdrawal.
Identify pain management strategies using nonopioid medications for a multimodal approach to pain management.
Describe the Opiate Prescribing Laws for Acute Pain.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

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 {contactHours} contact hours.

Disclosures

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.