A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals
November 20, 2020
11:00 am–12:00 pm ET
This training will provide the foundational knowledge regarding the disease of addiction and an introduction into treatment options utilizing medications for opioid use disorder.
Via Zoom
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This training is appropriate for all health care organization staff, including non-clinicians, working in an OB/Gyn setting. The training covers stigma, the disease model of addiction, and provides an overview of evidence-based treatment of substance use disorders.
Nurses on the Mother Baby, Labor & Delivery, & OB Float Pools at Boston Medical Center.
Kristin is a Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Nurse Educator for the OBAT TTA program at Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine.
By the end of this training, participants will have achieved foundational knowledge regarding substance use disorders and chronic medical conditions, and they will be able to identify at least three strategies to help manage substance use disorders.
Boston Medical Center Grayken Center for Addiction, Department of Public Health, Bureau of Addiction Services
Boston Medical Center grants 0.83 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.
The content on this site and the content presented by Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is intended solely to inform and educate healthcare and social service professionals, and shall not be used for medical advice and is not a substitute for the advice or treatment of a qualified medical professional. The hospital, the program, and the contributors are not acting as health care providers or professional consultants on behalf of any specific patient and disclaim establishing a provider-patient relationship with any specific patient.