A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals
April 23, 2020
7:00 pm–8:00 pm ET
This training, part four in a four-part series, will provide an overview of caring for special populations with opioid use disorder and how to respond to an opioid overdose.
Connect via Zoom: https://bostonmedicalcenter.zoom.us/j/546467319
Zoom call
Boston, MA
This course series will prepare nurses and other key members of the multidisciplinary care team to deliver medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD), such as buprenorphine and naltrexone, using a chronic care management model. Topics covered will include the science of addiction as a brain disorder, the pharmacotherapy of medications used to treat opioid and alcohol use disorders (current standard of care), and practical tools for implementing these treatment modalities into an office-based setting and for supporting physicians and advanced practice providers as part of a care team. Attendees will learn to screen patients for substance use disorders, initiate medication, and provide ongoing care and counseling.
Nurses and other medical staff providing treatment for substance use disorders in an office-based setting.
The learner will identify treatment consideration for special populations such as adolescents, peripartum patients, and those with acute and chronic pain, and will learn how to counsel on harm reduction and overdose prevention.
Boston Medical Center Grayken Center for Addiction, Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services
Boston Medical Center grants 1.0 hours to all nurses who attend, complete the evaluation, and complete the post test. Boston Medical Center is approved as a provider of continuing professional development by American Nurses Association, Massachusetts, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.