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: At the end of this course, the learner will be able to…
1. Discuss the foundational information essential for the understanding of pain management.
2. Identify basic pathophysiology of pain.
3. Explain the recommendations for assessing and re-assessing of pain and its management.
4. Describe developmental and individual patient considerations in assessing pain.
5. Identify and apply appropriate assessment tools and scales for patients in pain.
6. Discuss appropriate interventions and strategies for the management of pain.
7. Outline knowledge of and skills in the identification of adverse effects and complications of pain medications
8. Discuss pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions in the management of the alleviation of pain.
9. 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.