PAIN COACH—Pain Assessments and INterventions to Consider in Older Adult Care for Healthcare Providers
These podcasts are designed to provide effective, evidence-based strategies to reduce serious adverse outcomes resulting from inappropriate prescribing, misuse, and abuse of opioid analgesics, while managing chronic pain in older adults.
Podcasts
Podcast 1: Basics of Pain Management | 0.50 Credit
Podcast 2: Creating the Pain Treatment Plan | 0.50 Credit
Podcast 3: Managing Older Patients on Opioid Analgesics | 0.50 Credit
Podcast 4: Addiction Medicine: A Primer | 0.50 Credit
Learning Objectives
Podcasts
Podcast 1: Basics of Pain Management | 0.50 CreditPodcast 2: Creating the Pain Treatment Plan | 0.50 Credit
Podcast 3: Managing Older Patients on Opioid Analgesics | 0.50 Credit
Podcast 4: Addiction Medicine: A Primer | 0.50 Credit
Learning Objectives
- Discuss fundamental concepts of pain management, including definitions, and mechanisms of pain
- Describe how to assess patients in pain
- Identify risk factors for abuse and addiction
- Describe the range of therapeutic options for managing pain, including nonpharmacologic approaches and pharmacologic (non-opioid and opioid analgesics) therapies
- Integrate opioid analgesics into a pain treatment plan individualized to the needs of the patient
- Discuss how to safely and effectively manage patients on opioid analgesics in the acute and chronic pain settings, including initiating therapy, titrating, and discontinuing use of opioid analgesics
- Describe how to counsel patients and caregivers about the safe use of opioid analgesics, including proper storage and disposal
- Relate how to counsel patients and caregivers about the use of naloxone for opioid overdose
- Discuss when referral to a pain specialist is appropriate
- Describe the fundamental elements of addiction medicine
- Identify patients with opioid use disorder
- Manage patients with opioid use disorder
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