Impacting the Opioid Crisis: Prevention, Education, and Practice for Non-Prescribing Providers
Completed by Sonia T Martin
February 9, 2021
17 hours (approximately)
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What you will learn
Explain the factors that contributed to the current opioid crisis.
Understand the pathophysiology of pain and its treatment, including what opioids are and how they work.
Understand strategies to reduce unintended use and misuse, like prescribing guidelines, surveillance, safe disposal, and intervention messaging.
Identify what strategies and tools you can employ to impact the safe use of opioids across clinical care settings and with a variety of populations.
Skills you will gain
- Category: Health Policy
- Category: Preventative Care
- Category: Public Policies
- Category: Patient Education And Counseling
- Category: Substance Abuse
- Category: Epidemiology
- Category: Patient Communication
- Category: Mental and Behavioral Health
- Category: Pain Management
