SCOPE of Pain: Safer/Competent Opioid Prescribing Education

Podcast series

SCOPE of Pain is a series of continuing education activities designed to help you safely and effectively manage patients with acute and/or chronic pain, when appropriate, with opioid analgesics. Through the case of Michelle Jones, a 36-year-old who has a displaced right femoral neck fracture due to a motor vehicle crash, you'll learn how to:

  1. Assess pain and function
  2. Educate patients about opioid risks and limitations of benefit
  3. Assess for opioid misuse risk
  4. Develop patient-centered treatment goals
  5. Monitor patients prescribed opioids for benefits and harms 
  6. Use a risk-benefit framework when initiating, maintaining, modifying, or tapering opioid analgesics
  7. Diagnose and manage patients with opioid use disorder with or without concurrent pain

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of these activities, participants will be better able to:

  1. Assess pain and function
  2. Educate patients about opioid risks and limitations of benefit
  3. Assess for opioid misuse risk
  4. Develop patient-centered treatment goals
  5. Monitor patients prescribed opioids for benefits and harms 
  6. Use a risk-benefit framework when initiating, maintaining, modifying, or tapering opioid analgesics
  7. Diagnose and manage patients with opioid use disorder with or without concurrent pain

Additional Information

Partner: 
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 3.00 ANCC
Course opens: 
10/01/2023
Course expires: 
09/30/2025
Rating: 
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Available Credit

  • 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 3.00 ANCC
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