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ForwardManaging Opioid Risk in Active Military Service Members and Veterans Summit
This activity was designed to educate healthcare providers about the treatment and monitoring of patients with pain, with a special emphasis on the unique needs of those patients who are active military or Veterans. The activity focuses on optimal patient assessment and opioid prescribing practices; demonstrates methods to address substance use disorder and deaths from overdose; and ensures that the benefits of therapy outweigh the risks, while maintaining patient access to necessary pain medications. This education is compliant with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 2023 Blueprint and the Opioid Analgesic Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) educational requirements. This activity will provide perspective as to how acute and chronic pain affects military service members and the military Veteran community, while still being applicable to patients in the general population.
Target Audience
The intended audience includes physicians, nurse practitioners, physician associates, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, psychologists, social workers and other healthcare professionals working with the underserved high-risk populations of active military members and Veterans managing acute and chronic pain.
Learning Objectives
- Discuss the need for comprehensive pain education.
- Define and classify different types of pain.
- Identify patients who are Veterans or active military members to ensure individualized plans of care.
- Create effective pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic pain treatment plans.
- Assess patients being treated with extended-release/long-acting (ER/LA) opioids to determine optimal pain management.
- Describe appropriate initiation, management, and discontinuation of therapy for acute and chronic pain.
- Explain how to modify doses of opioids to alleviate risk of opioid use disorder.
- Identify signs of opioid use disorder in Veterans and active military members considering their unique psychosocial issues, coping mechanisms and military experiences.
- Counsel patients and caregivers about the safe use of opioid analgesics, including proper storage and disposal.
- Discuss general and product-specific drug information concerning opioids.
Commercial Support
There is no commercial support for this activity.
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Commercial Support
This activity is supported from an independent medical education grant from XX.
Dorothy Caputo, MA BSN RN
Deborah Clark
Jennifer Foley, DDS
Evelyn Lewis, M.D., M.A., FAAFP, DABDA
Bernadette Maker, MSN, APRN-BC, NP-C
Dorothy Duffy, RPh
Jennifer Kasey, PsyD
Evelyn Lewis, M.D., M.A., FAAFP, DABDA
Broc Pollinger
Daniel Sessions, MD, FASAM, FACMT, FAAEM
Alicia Snow, PA-C
In support of improving patient care, AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 3 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.
Physicians
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this enduring material for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nursing
Credit being awarded: 3 ANCC contact hours
Pharmacists
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare, designates this continuing education activity for 3.0 contact hours.
Physician Associates
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare has been authorized by the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 3 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid until 4/1/2026. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
Nurse Practitioners
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is accredited by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners as an approved provider of nurse practitioner continuing education. Provider number: 030803. This activity is approved for XX contact hour(s) (which includes XX hour(s) of pharmacology).
Dentists
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ADA.org/CERP.
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this activity for 3 continuing education credits.
Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider, or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ADA.org/CERP.
Psychologists
Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibly for the content of the programs.
Social Workers
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. AKH Inc. Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 3.0 ethics, clinical, cultural competence, and general continuing education credits.
New York State Social Workers
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0233.
Awarded credit: XX contact hour(s).
Dietitians
Athletic Trainers
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare (BOC AP#: JA0007034) is approved by the Board of Certification, Inc. to provide continuing education to Athletic Trainers (ATs). This program is eligible for a maximum of XX Category A hours/CEUs. ATs should claim only those hours actually spent in the educational program.
IACET Accredited CEUs
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is Jointly Accredited by the Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education and has been approved to offer Continuing Education Units (CEUs). CEUs are awarded for learning events that align with the ANSI/IACET Standard for Continuing Education and Training. IACET is recognized internationally as a standards development organization and accrediting body that promotes quality continuing education and training.
This learning event is eligible for XX Continuing Education Units (CEUs).
Available Credit
- 3.00 AANP
- 3.00 AAPA Category 1 CME
- 3.00 ACPE Pharmacist
- 3.00 ADA CERP
- 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this enduring material for a maximum of 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 3.00 ANCC
- 3.00 APA
- 3.00 ASWB
- 3.00 Attendance