A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals
September 4, 2019
8:00 am–9:00 am ET
Case conference for Addiction RNs at BMC
Boston Medical Center - Crosstown Building
801 Massachusetts Ave
1st Floor, RM 1013
Boston, MA
The format of the conference will be a combination of a topic relevant to addiction treatment along with a corresponding case submitted by one of our own addiction nurses. During the presentation of the case there will be ample time to talk about what worked, what didn’t, and what other resources might be available to help with similar patients in the future.
RNs working in addiction at Boston Medical Center
Participants will be able to describe issues related to a growing drug of concern: Kratom.
Participants will be able to describe the process for assessing Kratom use and treatment.
Boston Medical Center Grayken Center for Addiction. This event is funded by grants from the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services.
Boston Medical Center grants 1 nursing contact hours to nurses who complete this program. You must stay for the entire program and complete the evaluation form. This program has no commercial support. Faculty and planners have no vested interests, and there are no conflicts of interest. There will be no discussion of off label uses of drugs. Boston Medical Center is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by American Nurses Association, Massachusetts, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is a program of Boston Medical Center (BMC), a 514-bed academic medical center located in Boston's historic South End and the largest safety-net hospital in New England.
The content on this site and the content presented by Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is intended solely to inform and educate healthcare and social service professionals, and shall not be used for medical advice and is not a substitute for the advice or treatment of a qualified medical professional. The hospital, the program, and the contributors are not acting as health care providers or professional consultants on behalf of any specific patient and disclaim establishing a provider-patient relationship with any specific patient.