Striking a Balance: Understanding Pain Management and Opioids

Our didactic learning session is designed to provide a comprehensive and structured approach to pain management education. This course meticulously follows the FDA Blueprint, ensuring that participants receive the most up-to-date and evidence-based knowledge.

Target Audience

Hospice Medical Directors
HPM Physicians
Nurses
Nurse Practitioners
Pharmacists
PAs

Learning Outcomes

  • Describe the pathophysiology of pain as it relates to the concepts of pain management
  • Accurately assess patients in pain
  • Develop a safe and effective pain treatment plan
  • Identify evidence-based non-opioid options for the treatment of pain
  • Identify the risks and benefits of opioid therapy
  • Manage ongoing opioid therapy
  • Recognize behaviors that may be associated with opioid use disorder

Supplemental education also available includes modules on telehealth, addressing cannabis, fentanyl, stigma, and surgical education; a pocket-ready guide; a podcast series; and numerous brief teaching videos available through the CO*RE website.

Activity summary
Available credit: 
  • 2.50 ABA MOC
  • 2.50 ABIM MOC
  • 2.50 ABP MOC
  • 2.50 ABS MOC
  • 2.50 CME (physician only)
  • 2.50 Participation
Activity Published: 
05/28/2024
Activity Expires: 
09/30/2024
Member cost:
$0.00
Rating: 
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Disclosures 
AAHPM endorses the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Standards for disclosure and commercial support and endeavors to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor for all accredited products or programs. All who are in a position to control or influence the content of an educational activity must disclose any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.*Disclosure documents were reviewed for potential conflicts of interest and, if identified, were resolved prior to confirmation of participation. Only those who had no conflict of interest or who agreed to an identified resolution process prior to their participation were involved in this activity.

All editors, faculty and staff have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

*An ineligible company is defined as any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing healthcare goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. 

Faculty
Kathleen Broglio, DNP ANP-BC ACHPN CARN-AP FPCN FAANP FAAHPM
Joe Shega, MD 

Staff
Leah Farfan, BA
Liz Watson, BA
Rebecca Wyant, BS
Julie Tanner, BSN RN-BC CHPN
Theresa Nissen, BA
Laura Witt, MS-HSM
Julie Bruno, MSW LCSW

Continuing Education Credits
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.

The AAHPM designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

In order to receive the designated 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ for this course, you must complete the online evaluation in your AAHPM LEARN account under your Pending Activities page. Learners must attend activity in its entirety, attest to attendance at time of evaluation completion, answer all post-test questions, score 70% or greater on the post-test. Once you pass the posttest, please complete the evaluation and claim your desired CE and certificate(s).

Evaluation period closes September 30, 2024, at 11:59pm CT for claiming CME credits.

Maintenance of Certification (MOC)
This activity is planned in the context of one or more of the ABMS/ACGME Competencies.

  • Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 2.5 MOC medical knowledge points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
  • This activity contributes to the CME component of the American Board of Anesthesiology’s redesigned Maintenance of Certification in AnesthesiologyTM (MOCA®) program, known as MOCA 2.5®. Please consult the ABA website, www.theABA.org for a list of all MOCA 2.0 requirements.
  • Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.
  • Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn up to 2.5 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics' (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

Evaluation period closes September 30, 2024, at 11:59pm CT for claiming MOC credits.

Available Credit

  • 2.50 ABA MOC
  • 2.50 ABIM MOC
  • 2.50 ABP MOC
  • 2.50 ABS MOC
  • 2.50 CME (physician only)
  • 2.50 Participation

Price

Member cost:
$0.00
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