Prescribing Controlled Substances, Drug Diversion, and Best Practices 1 Hour

Contact Hour(s): 

1 Contact Hour including 1 Advanced Pharmacology Hour

Author:

Celeste Barefield, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC

This peer-reviewed course is applicable for the following professions: 

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN), Certified Nurse Midwife, Certified Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), Registered Nurse Practitioner

Accreditations: 

The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)

Course Description:

This course discusses: Drug Diversion and Best Practice Prescribing of Controlled Substances, Training and Administration of an Opioid Antagonist, and Substance Use Disorder Training and Other Relevant Training Guidelines “Best practice prescribing of controlled substances training”, and Prescription Monitoring Program information. The Federal and State laws regarding Prescribing and Monitoring Controlled Substances.

Outcomes:

≥ 92% of participants will understand the Federal and State laws regarding controlled substance prescribing and monitoring.

Objectives:

After completing this continuing education course, the participant will be able to:

1. Discuss the accepted best practices for assessing patients’ risk for addiction and misuse of controlled substances
2. Identify State and Federal laws applicable to prescribing, managing, and monitoring the controlled substances in their practice
3. Obtain the necessary tools to design and implement a suitable direct system of managing, monitoring, and discontinuing controlled substance use for patients’ pain issues
4. Document in compliance with State and Federal law
5. Discriminate treatment for specific pain types
6. Discuss tools for identifying the risk of diversion, addiction, and misuse
7. Describe the treatment of patients with acute, sub-acute, and chronic pain for whom nonpharmacological and non-controlled pain medications have not been fully effective
8. Access billing codes to get reimbursed for the time spent assessing patients’ risk for addiction, diversion, and misuse of controlled substances
9. Identify three ways controlled substances can be diverted.
10. Explore patient-provider communication

Disclosures:
CEUFast Inc. and the course planning team for this educational activity do not have any 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.