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Medication & Pharmacy Practice
Pain Assessment and Opioid Stewardship
Assess pain properly, treat it adequately, and use opioids without creating harm.
professional210 min5 lessons
What you'll learn
- Apply an appropriate assessment tool to a described patient
- Construct a multimodal analgesic plan for a described case
- Perform an opioid conversion accurately
- Identify sedation risk from described monitoring findings
- Differentiate tolerance, dependence and addiction
- Evaluate a discharge opioid prescription for appropriateness
Course content
5 modules · 5 lessons
1. Assessing Pain Properly
- Assessing Pain ProperlyPreview42m
2. Multimodal Analgesia
- Multimodal Analgesia42m
3. Opioids: Selection and Titration
- Opioids: Selection and Titration42m
4. Monitoring for Harm
- Monitoring for Harm42m
5. Dependence and Discharge
- Dependence and Discharge42m