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Substance Abuse Education for Delaware Nurses: Drug Diversion Training and Best-Practice Prescribing
- Drug Diversion
- Pharmacology
- 3.00 ANCC
$30.00
Fulfills the requirement for 3 contact hours of continuing nursing education on substance abuse for DE nurses, focusing on prescription drug abuse and diversion, challenges in managing chronic pain, and best practices for prescribing controlled substances. ANCC-accredited provider; accepted by the Delaware Board of Nursing.This course fulfills the requirement for 3 contact hours of continuing education on substance abuse for RNs and LPNs in Delaware.
- Drug Diversion
- 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.75 ANCC
$25.00
Prescription drug diversion is a serious problem and fuels the current US epidemic of drug misuse, abuse, and addiction. Healthcare practitioners need to be able to identify and prevent drug diversion in their practices, by patients or staff members. This course presents the different mechanisms used to divert drugs and strategies to detect and prevent diversion.
- Drug Diversion
- Prescribing: Controlled Substance(s)
- 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 3.00 ANCC
$225.00
Prescribing controlled substances for pain and other conditions is a major focus of both the medical community and legislatures throughout the country. The consequences of the use and abuse of controlled substances are frequently in the news. La. R.S. 40:978.3 requires new prescribers of controlled substances to complete a one-time, three-hour continuing education program on best practices for prescribing, drug diversion prevention, and appropriate treatment for addiction prior to licensure from the Board of Pharmacy.
- Drug Diversion
- State Mandated Training
- Prescribing: Opioid(s)
- Naloxone
- 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 3.00 ANCC
$21.00
Opioid analgesic medications can bring substantial relief to patients suffering from pain. However, the inappropriate use, abuse, and diversion of prescription drugs in America, particularly prescription opioids, has increased dramatically in recent years and has been identified as a national public health epidemic, with West Virginia among the states with the largest opioid misuse and diversion problem. A set of clinical tools, guidelines, and recommendations are now available for prescribers who treat pain patients with opioids.
- Drug Diversion
- Pharmacology
- 3.00 ANCC
$30.00
MANDATORY WEST VIRGINIA NURSING CEU. Fulfills the WV Board of Nursing requirement of 3 contact hours of continuing education on drug diversion and responsible prescribing of controlled substances. Per Chapter 30-1-7a, each nurse must complete 3 contact hours initially and then 1 contact hour, thereafter, annually of CE for drug diversion training, best-practice prescribing of controlled substances training and training on prescribing and administration of an opioid antagonist if they prescribe, administer or dispense controlled substances.