A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals
July 16, 2020
7:00 pm–8:00 pm ET
This training will provide a brief overview of the history, legislation, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacokinetics of buprenorphine and naloxone.
Connect via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94492072263
Zoom call
Boston, MA
"The Nurse Care Manager Model of Office-Based Addiction Treatment" is an updated and condensed version of our traditional eight-hour “Essentials of Office Based Addiction Treatment” training. This four-hour training includes an overview of the current substance use epidemic; foundational education about chronic disease model of addiction, including the biology of addiction; an overview of the three medications used in addiction treatment; and discussion of evidence-based strategies for the initiation, stabilization, and ongoing maintenance and support of persons engaged in treatment for addiction. Particular attention is devoted to the importance of patient-centered care utilizing a nurse care manager model.
To accommodate a wider audience, this training has also been divided into four one-hour modules. This is the second in the series of four modules. You may register for an individual session or for all four to complete the series.
Nurses and the entire multidisciplinary team providing treatment for substance use disorders in an office-based setting.
The learner will: explain the role of medication treatment; describe the fundamentals of the medications available; and identify the clinically relevant pharmacological characteristics of methadone, buprenorphine/naloxone and naltrexone.
Boston Medical Center Grayken Center for Addiction, Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services
Boston Medical Center grants 1.0 hours to all nurses who attend, complete the evaluation, and complete the post test. Boston Medical Center is approved as a provider of continuing professional development by American Nurses Association, Massachusetts, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is a program of Boston Medical Center (BMC), a 514-bed academic medical center located in Boston's historic South End and the largest safety-net hospital in New England.
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