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Non-Cancer Pain Management for New Mexico Advanced Practice Nurses

Equip advanced practice nurses in New Mexico with a 5-hour CE course on non-cancer pain management.

Individual course 5.00 CE credits 300 min

Course objectives

Enhance understanding of pain: physiology, assessment, interventions, self-management, and drug issues. Learn the guidelines and potential misuse, abuse, and diversion.

Course description

MANDATORY NURSING CEU FOR NEW MEXICO ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSES (APRN). 
This nursing continuing education course fulfills the requirement for 5 hours of CE on the management of non-cancer pain for advanced practice nurses in New Mexico. Covers pain assessment, strategies and interventions for treating and managing pain, NM Board of Nursing rules for managing chronic pain with controlled substances, and issues related to opioid prescribing, use, abuse, and diversion.

Regulations and board approvals

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.