Course Description
8-contact-hour pain management continuing education course covers understanding the experience of pain, providing appropriate assessment, ethical interventions for pain, and opioid misuse, abuse, and diversion. Applicable for nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and other healthcare professionals. Updated bestseller course!
Learning Outcome and Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you will better understand the experience of pain, appropriate assessment and interventions for pain, and issues regarding opioid use. Specific learning objectives to address potential knowledge gaps include:
- Explain the experience and physiology of pain.
- Outline the elements of a comprehensive pain assessment.
- Describe pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic interventions and self-management strategies.
- Discuss the roles and guidelines for prescribers, nursing, occupational therapy, and physical therapy in pain management.
- Discuss the issues of opioid misuse, abuse, and diversion and drug-seeking behaviors.
- Consider issues involved in pain management for palliative and end-of-life care.
- Relate ethical concerns in pain management.
Course Professions
| Nursing |
| Occupational Therapy |
| Physical Therapy |
| Case Management |
Course Summaries
Nursing:
Managing pain: understanding the experience and physiology of pain, elements of a comprehensive pain assessment, interventions and strategies, roles and guidelines for providers, ethical concerns, and issues related to opioids. |
Case Management:
Managing pain: understanding the experience and physiology of pain, elements of a comprehensive pain assessment, interventions and strategies, roles and guidelines for providers, ethical concerns, and issues related to opioids. |
Occupational Therapy:
Managing pain: understanding the experience and physiology of pain, elements of a comprehensive pain assessment, interventions and strategies, roles and guidelines for providers, ethical concerns, and issues related to opioids. |
Physical Therapy:
Managing pain: understanding the experience and physiology of pain, elements of a comprehensive pain assessment, interventions and strategies, roles and guidelines for providers, ethical concerns, and issues related to opioids. |
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. |
| Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #12300. |
| Nurse practitioners may apply these contact hours to pharmacy continuing education and prescriptive authorization. |
Course Notes - Nursing
OREGON NURSES: Take the OR version of this courseNEW MEXICO APNs: Take the 5-hour NM version of this courseMICHIGAN NURSES: Take the 2-hour MI version of this courseMA NURSE PRACTITIONERS: This course fulfills the MA continuing education requirement for nurse practitioners for education relative to effective pain management and best-practice prescribing of controlled substances. Accepted by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing.
Course Statements - Occupational Therapy
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Course Approval ID# 06186. This independent distance learning activity is offered at 8.00 CEUs, xxx aotaEdLevel xxx, Foundational Knowledge, OT Service Delivery. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
Course Notes - Occupational Therapy
OREGON OTs: Take the OR version of this course
Course Statements - Physical Therapy
| Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is a Continuing Competency Approval Agency recognized by the Physical Therapy Board of California. |
| Approval of physical therapy continuing education credit varies by state. Confirm approval with your state's licensing agency before you take the course for CE credit. See Physical Therapy CE Approval for more information. |
Course Notes - Physical Therapy
OREGON PTs: Take the OR version of this courseFLORIDA PT: This course is not approved for PTs/PTAs in Florida.
Course Notes - All Professions
MASSACHUSETTS NURSE PRACTITIONERS: This course fulfills the MA requirement for CE on pain management; accepted by the MA Board of Registration in Nursing.OREGON HEALTH PROFESSIONALS: Take the OR version of this courseNEW MEXICO APNs: Take the 5-hour NM version of this courseMICHIGAN NURSES: Take the 2-hour MI version of this course
Course Categories
| Clinical Application |
| Cancer (Oncology) |
| Case Management (CCMC-Approved Courses) |
| Critical Care |
| Emergency Nursing |
| Home Health |
| Hospice (Death and Dying) |
| Pain & Pain Management |
| Pharmacy |
| Substance Abuse |
| Clinical Application |
| Foundational Knowledge |
| OT Service Delivery |
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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