
Opioid Overdose Treatment: An Impactful Microlearning Approach for Healthcare Providers Serving the Military Community
Opioid Overdose Treatment: An Impactful Microlearning Approach for Healthcare Providers Serving the Military Community is a comprehensive, four-episode accredited microlearning series designed specifically to address the critical challenges of opioid overdose recognition, treatment, and prevention within military-connected populations. This innovative educational initiative, developed in partnership with AKH and the Veterans Health and Wellness Foundation (VHWF), delivers focused, 15-minute episodes available as enduring videos, monographs or audio-only podcasts, accessible for 12 months on both organizational websites. The series progresses systematically from understanding the unique physiochemical properties and reversal challenges of synthetic opioids in Episode 1, through examining the complex intersection of service-related injuries, polysubstance use, and overdose risk in military communities in Episode 2, to differentiating pharmacological treatment approaches including naloxone and nalmefene mechanisms in Episode 3, and culminating with evidence-based strategies for post-overdose patient management and transition to medication-assisted treatment in Episode 4. Accredited by multiple professional organizations (IPCE, ACCME and ANCC) for 1.0 total continuing education hour, this microlearning library emphasizes practical application through targeted assessment questions and measures meaningful Level 4 outcomes to ensure healthcare providers develop competencies essential for reducing overdose mortality and improving treatment outcomes among veterans and military-connected individuals facing opioid use disorders.
Target Audience
This proposed interprofessional initiative will be designed to reach healthcare providers involved in the management of patients with opioid overdose — particularly those professionals who care/may care for members of the Military Community. This includes physicians, nurses, and all other healthcare professionals involved.
Learning Objectives
Episode 1 (0.25 hours):
The Opioid Crisis and The Challenges of Synthetic Opioids
- Characterize opioid overdose, synthetic opioid overdose, and non-fatal opioid overdose in patients with a history of military service.
Episode 2 (0.25 hours):
Intersecting Epidemics in the Military Community
- Characterize opioid overdose, synthetic opioid overdose, and non-fatal opioid overdose in patients with a history of military service.
Episode 3 (0.25 hours):
Opioid Antagonists for the Treatment of Overdose – Naloxone and Nalmefene
- Differentiate pharmacological approaches for the treatment of opioid overdose.
Episode 4 (0.25 hours):
Managing Patients After a Non-Fatal Overdose
- Formulate strategies to reduce the risk of overdose and transition patients to a medication for opioid use disorder after a nonfatal overdose.
Disclosures
None of the faculty, planners, reviewers, or staff for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.
Faculty / Planners
AKH Inc., Staff and Reviewers
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 0.25 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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