Opioid Crisis Training
Course Details:
- Category: Clinical
- Duration: 45 minutes
- Target Audience: All Employees
Course Overview: With the public health emergency of opioid
addiction and overdoses it is of utmost importance to have opioid crisis
training for all healthcare professionals. Within the past thirty years, under
the reassurance of pharmaceutical companies, prescription opioids rapidly
increased in use leading to high levels of misuse and abuse of the medication
creating an opioid crisis epidemic. This epidemic is devastating American
lives, families, and communities, to combat the epidemic it is important for
healthcare providers and employees that may prescribe or treat patients with
opioid prescriptions to be well-informed of the safe prescribing practices and
the potential risks involved.
Training Includes:
- Opioid Crisis Epidemic
- Types of Opioids
- How Opioids Work
- Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Opioid Use
- Severe Effects of Opioid Use
- Opioid Withdrawal
- Addiction vs Physical Dependence
- Recognizing Opiate Addiction
- Doctor Shopping
- Signs of Overdose
- Actions to Take in Suspected Overdose
- Overdose Treatment
- Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
- Safe Prescribing Practices
- Role of Healthcare Professionals
- Chronic Pain Treatment Plans
- Steps to Recovery
- Difficult Conversation Tips
- HIPAA and Opioid Overdose