Healthcare
Nurse Practitioner
Pain Management for Oregon Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals
Empower your pain management knowledge with this course, meeting 6 hours of required CE for Oregon healthcare professionals.
Course objectives
Upon completion of this course, you will better understand the experience of pain, appropriate assessment and interventions for pain, and issues regarding opioid use. Specific learning objectives to address potential knowledge gaps include:
Explain the experience and physiology of pain.- Outline the elements of a comprehensive pain assessment.
- Describe pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic interventions and self-management strategies.
- Discuss the roles and guidelines for prescribers, nursing, occupational therapy, and physical therapy in pain management.
- Discuss the issues of opioid misuse, abuse, and diversion and drug-seeking behaviors.
Course description
MANDATORY OREGON PAIN MANAGEMENT CEU FOR NURSES AND OTHER HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS.
This course fulfills 6 of the 7 hours of pain management CE required of many licensed healthcare professionals in Oregon (the additional 1 hour must be taken from the Oregon Pain Management Commission). Covers pain assessment, interventions, and self-management strategies; roles and guidelines for nursing, occupational therapy, and physical therapy; issues regarding opioid use.
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.