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Presenter(s): Jason Sawyer, RN-EC, NP-C, BSc N, MN, AP-PMN, Nurse Practitioner, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Target Audience
This webinar is designed for physicians, nurse practitioners or other advanced practice nurses, PAs, and pharmacists. The live webinar is accredited for nurses.

Webinar Description: This webinar is geared towards health care providers caring for hospitalized patients with pain and a substance use disorder, with a ‎focus on people with traumatic injuries. This webinar will use a case based approach to outline some of the challenges and complexities of managing pain in trauma patients ‎with a substance use disorder. The primary content will describe a successful analgesic plan and transition to Suboxone in the acute ‎traumatic postoperative period.‎

Educational Objectives:

• Outline some of the unique ‎challenges of the post traumatic ‎injury population with substance ‎use disorders
• Describe non-opioid ‎pharmacological interventions for ‎pain management
• Identify several non-analgesic ‎factors that will improve the quality ‎of pain management of this ‎complex population

Continuing Education Information
The Greater Kansas City Chapter of the American Society for Pain Management Nursing® is approved as a provider of continuing nursing education by the Kansas State Board of Nursing. This course offering has been submitted for approval for nursing contact hours applicable for RN, LPN and LMHT relicensure.

Note: Once the live event has passed, please allow two weeks for the recording and slide presentations to be posted.