Pharmacology Series Session 6: Don’t Swallow the Pain! How to Relieve Pain in the Setting of Opioid Use Disorder by Christina Wiekamp, APRN, ACNS-BC, CNP

Topic: Don't Swallow the Pain! How to Relieve Pain the Setting of Opioid Use Disorder 

Speaker: Christina Wiekamp, APRN, ACNS-BC, CNP

Learner Outcomes: 

1. Describe opioid use disorder (OUD). 

2. List at least two ways to utilize multimodal pain management to optimize pain treatment for patients with OUD.

3. Indicate an increased understanding of the best practices of caring for patients with OUD while hospitalized & when planning for discharge that are used to reduce patient harm.

Cost: $15.00 USD

ANCC credits will only be given to participants who attend the virtual session on the date and time it is offered. This activity provides 1.00 ANCC contact hours, which includes 1.00 pharmacotherapeutic contact hours.

No conflict of interest was identified for anyone with the ability to control content of this virtual session.

This session is jointly provided by MN NACNS and the M Health Fairview Provider Unit. M Health Fairview is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.