Complimentary CE Dinner Meeting: Optimizing Safe Opioid Prescribing

TARGET AUDIENCE

Consistent with the goals of the FDA REMS blueprint, this REMS-compliant continuing education program is designed to meet the educational needs of a broad range of health care professionals, nationally, including medication prescribers and care team members; physicians (including primary care, internal medicine, emergency medicine, surgery, pain medicine, addiction medicine), advanced practice nurses (eg, APRN, CNS, NP, DNP, CRNA, CNMW, other), physician assistants, dentists, podiatrists, nurses, pharmacists, optometrists, and psychologists.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this activity, attendees will have improved ability to:

1. Articulate the foundational elements of pain management, distinguishing between definitions, classifications, and mechanisms of pain.
2. Conduct comprehensive pain assessments that evaluate pain severity and identify patient-specific risk factors for nonmedical opioid use and opioid use disorder.
3. Apply effective strategies for managing acute and chronic pain that prioritize the use of nonpharmacologic and non-opioid pharmacologic modalities.
4. Develop guideline-driven strategies for initiating, titrating, and discontinuing opioid analgesics, while emphasizing individualized treatment plans, secure storage protocols, and counseling approaches for patients and caregivers concerning naloxone use during opioid overdose.
5. Recognize clinical indicators for specialist referral and facilitate timely consultations with pain management and addiction medicine.
6. Outline the core principles of addiction medicine and apply evidence-based strategies for recognizing and managing opioid use disorder.