Course Description
MANDATORY NURSING CEU FOR NEW MEXICO ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSES (APRN). This nursing continuing education course fulfills the requirement for 5 hours of CE on the management of non-cancer pain for advanced practice nurses in New Mexico. Covers pain assessment, strategies and interventions for treating and managing pain, NM Board of Nursing rules for managing chronic pain with controlled substances, and issues related to opioid prescribing, use, abuse, and diversion.
Course Learning Objectives
| 1) Explain the experience and physiology of pain. |
| 2) Outline the elements of a comprehensive pain assessment. |
| 3) Describe pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic interventions and self-management strategies to treat non-cancer pain. |
| 4) Discuss the guidelines for prescribing opioids for pain management. |
| 5) Discuss the issues of opioid misuse, abuse, and diversion and drug-seeking behaviors. |
Course Professions
Course Summaries
Nursing:
REQUIRED FOR NEW MEXICO APRN Fulfills the New Mexico requirement for 5 hours of CE on the management of non-cancer pain for advanced practice nurses. |
Mandatory:
REQUIRED FOR NEW MEXICO APRN Fulfills the New Mexico requirement for 5 hours of CE on the management of non-cancer pain for advanced practice nurses. |
Accreditation / Approval Information
N/A
Course Statements - Nursing
| Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. |
| Nurse practitioners may apply these contact hours to pharmacy continuing education and prescriptive authorization. |
Course Statements - Mandatory
| Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. |
| Nurse practitioners may apply these contact hours to pharmacy continuing education and prescriptive authorization. |
Course Notes - All_Professions
This course fulfills the requirement for 5 hours of continuing education on the management of non-cancer pain for New Mexico advanced practice nurses with a DEA registration and licensure that permits prescribing opioids.
Course Notes - Nursing
This course fulfills the requirement for 5 hours of continuing education on the management of non-cancer pain for New Mexico advanced practice nurses with a DEA registration and licensure that permits prescribing opioids.
Course Notes - Mandatory
This course fulfills the requirement for 5 hours of continuing education on the management of non-cancer pain for New Mexico advanced practice nurses with a DEA registration and licensure that permits prescribing opioids.
Course Categories
| Critical Care |
| Emergency Nursing |
| Home Health |
| Hospice (Death and Dying) |
| Pain & Pain Management |
| Pharmacy |
| State-Mandated CE |
| Substance Abuse |
Authors
Judith Swan MSN, BSN, ADN
Judith Swan has been in the healthcare field for over fifty years, beginning as a medic in the U.S. Air Force. As an RN, she has worked in mental health, emergency, orthopedics, hospice, and medical/surgical. She holds an MSN as a family nurse practitioner. Judith's experience in nursing education includes teaching psychiatric, long-term, and dementia nursing care and as director of a nursing assistant college program. She has written ancillary educational materials for nursing textbooks, curricula for nursing assistant programs, online health articles, and continuing education courses since 2012.
Persis Mary Hamilton, EdD, MSN, BSN, PHN, PMHN
Persis Hamilton has a rich background in nursing, nursing education, and writing. She has written 14 nursing textbooks for two major publishers. Now retired, Persis taught for more than 40 years in vocational, associate, baccalaureate, and graduate nursing programs, served as item writer for the League for Nursing, and was the principle speaker at numerous CE workshops. She has also conducted research in Micronesia and Guam. She is the former Lead Nurse Planner for Wild Iris Medical Education.
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