This webinar highlights the importance of appropriately assessing acute and chronic pain as patients experience it, as well as the importance of assessing the effect of pain on function. We discuss multimodal analgesia, post-medication sedation and environmental modifications.

Many state medical licensing boards have already or will require healthcare professionals to complete mandated continuing education that addresses prescribing controlled substances. This module teaches you about substance use disorder and how to identify signs and symptoms of misuse and abuse. It also explores discussing a safe and effective approach to managing patients with substance use disorder.

How many times have you considered whether a patient truly understood discharge or medication instructions? The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services discusses the seriousness of health literacy and even those with good literacy skills can struggle to understand.

Chronic conditions create a significant burden on our healthcare system. Clinicians witness the impact on patients’ quality of life and see how hard it is for people to make changes. Motivational interviewing is a style of patient counseling that helps resolve a person’s ambivalence about changing his or her habits. * Available 1/3/20

The 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimates 6.2 million Americans ages 12 and older misuse psychotherapeutic drugs. The increased emphasis on pain management to improve quality of life and functionality for those with chronic pain has led to more opioid prescriptions in the U.S. The need to treat pain must be balanced with a responsibility to minimize misuse and abuse.

Poor medication adherence has been called "America's other drug problem." Find out how you can favorably impact medication adherence from hospitalization to post-discharge to clinics, provider offices and the community.

Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) is the primary source for managing pain for many postoperative patients. You must understand the risks of PCA therapy to take all measures needed to ensure patients are protected from PCA errors and receive adequate pain control.

The Institute of Medicine estimates that about 100 million U.S. adults live with chronic pain. This module describes the etiology and management of chronic pain conditions and safe practices associated with opioid prescriptions to relieve pain.

Did you know women have unique risk factors for substance abuse that are different from risk factors for men? The opioid epidemic creates reproductive concerns in women who already struggle with drug and alcohol problems. Learn how you can better help them in this CE webinar.

Nurses and physicians are confronted daily with the responsibility to care for hospitalized children in pain, so you must learn to assess and treat pediatric pain appropriately. This course describes how to recognize pediatric pain and the barriers to its effective treatment, how to assess pain, pharmacological and nonpharmacological management options, and the complexities of managing pain in special populations.

Balancing the competing demands of planning care, implementing clinical interventions and documenting can make it hard to carve out quality time for patient education. Find out what you must know to assess the nature of each patient's opioid use, provide education and/or counseling, and where to refer them for substance misuse or abuse.

Explore public health approaches across the continuum of pain care that won't worsen the opioid crisis. One way is to implement the 2016 National Pain Strategy and support team-based, patient-centered care for those with pain refractory for standard pain relief approaches. Clinicians must acknowledge the complexity of chronic pain and employ easy, high-impact changes.