This course meets the requirement for a 6-unit course in pain and pain management stipulated by Oregon's Senate Bill 885.
Authors: Lauren Robertson, BA, MPT
Elizabeth Macera, BSN, MSN, PhD
JoAnn O’Toole, RN, BSN
Susan Walters Schmid, PhD
Course Description
This course describes pain management strategies including pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment of pain. It covers ethical and legal issues in pain management and summarizes pain issues that affect special populations. It describes effective tools for the assessment and documentation of pain and describes the efforts of the Oregon Pain Management Commission to improve pain management in Oregon.
Course Objectives
When you finish this course, you will be able to:
- Discuss the prevalence of pain.
- Spell out the Joint Commission regulations for pain management in U.S. healthcare organizations.
- Outline the efforts of the Oregon Pain Management Commission to improve pain management practices in Oregon.
- Distinguish between acute and chronic pain.
- Explain the physiology of pain and trace its pathways in the nervous system.
- Describe common sources of pain, including low back pain, post surgical pain, cancer pain, and arthritis.
- Outline effective tools for the assessment and documentation of pain.
- Identify the main principles of analgesic pain management.
- Explain the role of opioids in pain management and define the Central Principle of Balance.
- Describe psychosocial aspects of pain management including the role of the caregiver.
- List common cognitive and physical modalities used in the nondrug treatment of pain.
- Summarize pain management in special populations, including children, adolescents, older adults, and those at the end of life.
If you are an occupational therapist or OT Assistant, you need to know the following:
Target Audience: Occupational therapists, OTAs
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Content Focus:
Category One: Domain of OT: Client Factors
Category Two: Occupational Therapy Process: Outcomes
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