A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals
November 24, 2020
12:00 pm–1:00 pm ET
The training covers stigma, the disease model of addiction, and provides an overview of evidence-based treatment of substance use disorders.
Via Zoom
This training is appropriate for all health care organization staff, including non-clinicians. The training covers stigma, the disease model of addiction, and provides an overview of evidence-based treatment of substance use disorders.
Interdisciplinary staff of East Boston Neighborhood Health Center and South End Community Health Center
RN, ACRN, CARN
Andrea CaputoDNP, FNP-BC, CARN-AP
· Describe the prevalence of substance use disorders within the US Population
· Explain substance use disorders a chronic medical conditions
· Identify at least 3 strategies to help manage substance use disorders
· List the necessary steps for responding to an overdose
Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (DPH/BSAS) and Boston Medical Center Office Based Addiction Treatment and Technical Assistance (BMC OBAT TTA).
Boston Medical Center grants 1.0 contact hours to all nurses who attend this course and complete the evaluation. Boston Medical Center is approved as a provider of continuing nursing professional development by American Nurses Association, Massachusetts, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Boston University School of Social Work which is authorized through the MA state board of Social Work to provide 1.00 CE Credit Hours.
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.