Opioid Prescribing Provider Course – May 22, 2018 | Meridian, MS

Global Training Institute is offering a course for Providers who prescribe opioids to patients. The current opioid crisis has placed providers in a difficult position in providing care for patients. About 2 million Americans are addicted to prescription opioids, and more than 15,000 died from overdoses involving prescription opioids in 2015. This course seeks to explain the mechanisms for pain relief using opioids, alternatives for opioids, and treating opioid-addicted patients. Some of the content includes:
– What is an opioid (opiate)?
– Difference Between Opiates and Opioids
– Derivatives
– Drug Schedules
– DEA, drug manufacture, and distribution
– Structure-Activity Relationship (Chemistry)
– Receptor Activity and types
– Dosing and Tolerance
– Overdose
– Agonists and partial agonists
– General Law overview
– Mississippi Prescription Monitoring Program
This Opioid Prescribing Course offers 8.0 contact hours and was created for the broad audiences of:
Physicians & Medical Students
Nurse Practitioners & Students
Physician Assistants
Law Enforcement
Nurses & Nursing Students
EMS Personnel
Exercise Physiologists
Nurse Anesthetists & Nurse Anesthetist Students
AND MORE!
LOCATION | Holiday Inn Conference Center, Meridian, MS
CLASS TIMES | 8:00AM – 5:30PM
ATTIRE | Clinical or Business Casual
CONTACT HOURS | 8.5 CEUs (AMA, ANCC)
Course Features
- Lectures 0
- Quizzes 0
- Duration 8
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 14
- Certificate No
- Assessments Self