After participating in this educational initiative, the learner should be better able to:

• Describe and apply knowledge in approaches to acute pain management
• Recall and demonstrate knowledge of management of chronic pain including the role of long-term opioid therapy
• Describe and apply knowledge of recommendations for clinical prescribing of long-term opioid therapy
• Recall and calculate morphine milligram equivalents (MME) in order to prescribe safer dosages of opioids
• Identify high-risk patients and prescribe naloxone to these patients to prevent risk of overdose death
• Understand and describe non-opioid acute pain therapy options and have access to resources and tools to assist in managing postoperative acute pain
• Describe and apply knowledge of the Rhode Island regulations pertaining to acute pain management in opioid naïve patience and naloxone co-prescription requirements
• Apply knowledge and increase utilization of the Rhode Island Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP)