Contact Hours 1.00
CERP A 1.00
Pharmacology Hours 1.00
Expires Dec 31, 2026
Topics: Pain Management, Pharmacology
Population: Adult
Role: APRN
Member: Free
NonMember: $10.00
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
Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.
AccreditationAmerican 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
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The Nurse Planner has determined that no individuals with the ability to control content of this activity have relevant relationships with ineligible companies.
Activities with pharmacotherapeutic credit are to assist the APRN in fulfilling their education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.
Refund PolicyContinuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.