Course Catalog

The Challenge of Pain 2021 | All Modules

On-Demand Program

Course Description

Pain causes extensive suffering, disability and expenditure of scarce healthcare resources. This conference focuses on the challenge of pain management for healthcare professionals across the healthcare continuum. Regional and national pain specialists present evidence-based strategies for assessing and managing pain in all care settings. Teaching methods include video, PDF handout, discussion, and case studies.

Target Audience

For healthcare professionals including staff nurses, clinical nurse leaders, clinical nurse specialists, nurse practitioners, nurse educators, managers, administrators, social workers and other interested healthcare providers.

Objectives for Learning Outcomes

At the conclusion of this course, you will be better able to:

1. Discuss up to date approaches to the biopsychosocial management of chronic pain.
2. Learn about improved strategies to overcome individual and structural obstacles that interfere with effective delivery of chronic pain care.
3. Outline the 2019 WA opioid legislative rules.
4. Provide an overview of issues faced by persons who have completed cancer treatment.
5. Identify role of self-care for better pain management.
6. Learn the primary components and function of cannabis and the endocannabinoid system.
7. Learn to apply the diagnostic elements of Opioid Use Disorder to their chronic pain patients with dual diagnoses.
8. Discuss the role of opioid guidelines in opioid tapering.

Featured Topics

1. Update on Pain, Part 1: Why is Pain Hard for Everyone? – David Tauben, MD, FACP
2. Update on Pain, Part 2: What Can You Do About It? – David Tauben, MD, FACP
3. WA ESHB 1427: Opioid Rules – Deb Gordon, RN, DNP, FAAN
4. Chronic Pain in the Cancer Survivor (Rx) – Pamela Stitzlein Davies, MS, ARNP, FAANP
5. Self-Care Modalities for Pain Control – Becca Taylor, RN, PhD
6. Cannabis and Pain (Rx) – Garth Terry, MD, PHD
7. Recognizing Opioid Use Disorder in Your Chronic Pain Patients – Pamela Pentin, MD, JD, FAAFP
8. Opioid Tapering: CDC vs. HHS Guidelines (Rx) – Mark Sullivan, MD, PhD

FORMAT: Conference Webinar

DATE: June 16 & June 17, 2022 | 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

CONTACT HOURS: 7.25 (4.25 pharmacology hours at the advanced practice level)
(CME Category: 2 hours)

LOCATION: Online

UW STUDENTS: Contact cne@uw.edu or 206.543.1047 for a 50% discount

CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION

Chronic pain causes extensive suffering, disability, and the expenditure of scarce healthcare resources. This conference focuses on the challenge of pain management for healthcare professionals across the healthcare continuum. Pain specialists present evidence-based strategies for assessing and managing pain in all care settings. Teaching methods include lecture, discussion, case studies, and inter-professional dialogue.

• The Chronic Opioid Workshop is held on Friday, June 17, 2022
• The ASAM (TOUD & REMS) courses are held on Thursday, June 16, 2022. (this is a separate registration, scroll down for more information).

TARGET AUDIENCE

For healthcare professionals including staff nurses, clinical nurse leaders, clinical nurse specialists, nurse practitioners, nurse educators, primary care providers, physicians, physician assistants, managers, administrators, social workers, and other interested healthcare providers.

OBJECTIVES FOR LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. Learn a few new skills to have more effective clinic visits with people living with chronic pain  ​
2. Lead a Risk/Benefit discussion for patients on long-term opioids for chronic non-cancer pain​
3. Identify patients on long-term opioids for non-cancer pain that would benefit from an opioid taper 
4. Demonstrate best practices for initiating an opioid taper like BRAVO method ​
5. Practice navigating resistance to a treatment plan and creating a collaborative plan for long-term opioids
6. Learn skills to avoid treatment inertia around chronic pain conditions ​
7. Demonstrate effective approaches to Opioid Misuse and Opioid Use Disorders  ​
8. Intro to Buprenorphine for chronic pain
9. Practice these skills on live standardized patients in the afternoon session

PROGRAM SCHEDULE | Friday, June 17, 2022

We are pleased to offer both the online Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder and a Pain Management and Opioid: Balancing Risks and Benefits training in partnership with the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) at no additional cost. Space is limited. Registration will be through ASAM and with separate links.

(TOUD) Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Course

Registration: https://elearning.asam.org/p/TOUDUWN61622
June 16, 2022 | 8:00 am – 12:30 pm | 8.00 Contact Hours (live & asynchronous courses)

TOUD Description: 8-hour, blended course (4-hour on-demand, 4-hour live virtual) provides required education to qualify for the waiver to prescribe buprenorphine in an office-based setting and covers essential information for providers to identify, assess, diagnose, and manage patients with opioid use disorder (OUD). 

(REMS) Pain Management and Opioids: Mitigating Risks and Benefits

Registration: https://elearning.asam.org/products/pain-management-and-opioids-mitigating-risks-uw-cne-thursday-june-16-2022
June 16, 2022 | 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm | 4.00 Contact Hours

REMS Description: The course Pain Management and Opioids: Mitigating Risks (REMS) course is a 4-hour course designed to educate ER/LA opioid prescribers about the necessary context for safe opioid prescribing. This newly updated comprehensive course discusses the opioid overdose death epidemic, biopsychosocial aspects of pain and addiction, and clinical guidelines on the treatment of chronic pain. This program meets many states’ requirements for opioid education and is fully compliant with the Opioid Analgesic Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) education requirement (“Blue Print”), issued by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration in September 2018.

FORMAT: In-person Conference
DATE: Tuesday | May 2nd, 2023
CE H: 7.00 | Rx Hours: 5.00 (included at the advanced practice level)
LOCATION: UW Center for Urban Horticulture

CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION

Pain causes extensive suffering, disability, and expenditure of scarce healthcare resources. This conference focuses on the challenge of pain management for healthcare professionals across the healthcare continuum. Regional and national pain specialists present evidence-based strategies for assessing and managing pain in all care settings. Teaching methods include lectures, discussions, case studies, and inter-professional dialogue.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Staff nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians, physician assistants, clinical nurse specialists, social workers, physical therapists, and other interested healthcare professionals working in acute care, long-term care, hospice, home health, specialty care, and other ambulatory care settings.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

– Able to recognize and treat widespread pain syndrome
– Learn ways for dealing with complex pain management
– Best clinical approaches for pain management in individuals with a substance use disorder
– Migraines: how to identify common headache disorders and what are the best evidence-based practice to treat them

SCHEDULE

Hotels

There are several Hotels in the UW University District close to the venue: Silver Cloud Hotel, Graduate Hotel, and Residence Inn. There are many other options— look for lodging near UW Horticulture Center, Seattle to be in the area closest to the venue.

The Challenge of Pain 2019

WA Prescribers 4-hour CE Package

On-Demand Program

Content meets Washington State’s one-time requirement of four continuing education hours on best practices relating to opioid prescribing for all who prescribe these medications.

• Bio-Psycho-Social Physiology of Acute on Chronic Pain
• Buprenorphine: The Ins and Outs 
• Prescribing for Pain: New Guidelines
• Perioperative Pain Management

Target Audience

For nurses, clinical nurse specialists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, physicians, respiratory therapists, psychologists, pharmacists, social workers, physical therapists and other interested healthcare professionals in all settings.

Objectives for Learning Outcomes

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be better able to:

1. Identify interacting bio-medical, psychological, and social mechanisms contributing to the transition of acute to chronic pain.
2. Integrate buprenorphine therapy for OUD into their practice.
3. Describe when an ARNP must complete a Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) inquiry.
4. Discuss impacts of chronic pain in various phases of perioperative pain management.

Speakers

• Preetma Kooner, MD
  Anesthesiology, UW School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
• Pamela L. Pentin, JD, MD, FAAFP
  Associate Professor and Chief of Service, UW Medicine/UWMC Family Medicine
• Donna Poole, MSN, ARNP, PMHCNS-BC
  Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, Peninsula Community Health Services, Bainbridge Island, WA
• David Tauben, MD
  Chief, UW Division of Pain Medicine; Clinical Professor, Dept. of Anesthesia, Pain Medicine and Dept. of Medicine, Seattle, WA