NUR170 – Pain Management: Process & Principle of Practice (2.0 HR)
To provide health care professionals with the information and essential tools for assessing, re-assessing, intervening, evaluating and documenting pain intensity as a major step toward effective pain management.
Purpose: To provide health care professionals with the information and essential tools for assessing, re-assessing, intervening, evaluating and documenting pain intensity as a major step toward effective pain management.
Objectives:
- Discuss the foundational information essential for the understanding of pain management;
- Identify basic pathophysiology of pain;
- Explain the recommendations for assessing and re-assessing of pain and its management;
- Describe developmental and individual patient considerations in assessing pain;
- Identify and apply appropriate assessment tools and scales for patients in pain;
- Discuss appropriate interventions and strategies for the management of pain;
- Outline knowledge of and skills in the identification of adverse effects and complications of pain medications;
- Discuss pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions in the management of the alleviation of pain;
- Identify barriers to appropriate pain care and strategies to reduce such barriers.
Continuing Education Credits: 2.0 contact hours Iowa BON #335; 2.0 contact hours CA Board of Nursing CEP 14033; 2.0 contact hours CE Broker # 50-4572 Florida and District of Columbia; 0 contact hours for Social Work State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. License No. 159.001315; 2.0 contact hours for Physical Therapy State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. License No. 216.000284; 2.0 contact hours for Occupational Therapy State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. License No. 224.000164; 2.0 CE hours for long term care department heads; and other health care disciplines.