Non-Cancer Pain Management for New Mexico Advanced Practice Nurses
Tracking # 20-1244400
$50.00
What you'll learn
Upon completion of this course, you will better understand the experience of pain, appropriate assessment and interventions for pain, and issues regarding opioid use. Specific learning objectives to address potential knowledge gaps include:
- Explain the experience and physiology of pain.
- Outline the elements of a comprehensive pain assessment.
- Describe pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic interventions and self-management strategies to treat non-cancer pain.
- Discuss the guidelines for prescribing opioids for pain management.
- Discuss the issues of opioid misuse, abuse, and diversion and drug-seeking behaviors.
Course overview
MANDATORY NURSING CEU FOR NEW MEXICO ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSES (APRN). This nursing continuing education course fulfills the requirement for 5 hours of CE on the management of non-cancer pain for advanced practice nurses in New Mexico. Covers pain assessment, strategies and interventions for treating and managing pain, NM Board of Nursing rules for managing chronic pain with controlled substances, and issues related to opioid prescribing, use, abuse, and diversion.
Subject areas
This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.
New Mexico Board of Nursing
Certified Nurse Practitioner
Disclosure statements
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Nurse practitioners may apply these contact hours to pharmacy continuing education and prescriptive authorization.
Nurse planners, content experts, faculty, and others in control of content (either individually or as a group) have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
This course was not Joint Provided. No outside commercial support was received for the creation of this course material.
Course Availability: Expires July 31, 2025. You must score 70% or better on the test and complete the course evaluation to earn a certificate of completion for this CE activity. Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., provides educational activities that are free from bias. The information provided in this course is to be used for educational purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional healthcare.
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