MGH Cares About Pain Relief Initiative

Pain Relief Champions:
"Best Practices for Safe, Effective Pain Relief"

Day 1: February 8th 2008, 7:30am - 4:45pm,
Blake 1- O'Keeffe Auditorium at Massachusetts General Hospital

Day 2: February 22nd 2008, 7:30am - 4:45pm,
Blake 1 - O'Keeffe Auditorium at Massachusetts General Hospital
(We encourage attendance both days--different content each day)

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         Course Description and Goals
         Target Audience
         Schedule
         Faculty
         Continuing Education Credit
         Course Brochure
         Application
         Tuition
         Sponsorship
         Disclosures

Course Description and Goals
Evidence-based clinical know-how has existed for three decades regarding how to prevent or treat most pain.Yet pain remains under recognized and is under treated or untreated in many settings. Unnecessary pain is widely experienced by patients in all settings, across age groups, and across race, gender, and culture. Additionally, emerging research is dramatically changing the best practices that balance the need for safety and efficacy.

This offering reviews best-practices in this clinical area and through interactive discussions with a multi-disciplinary, heterogeneous audience. Participants will examine barriers to optimal pain relief while suggesting strategies for overcoming many of them. The course will also prepare participants to return to their units and departments as resources to colleagues and peers, motivated to embark on meaningful projects for improving the care of patients in pain.

Target Audience
Pain Relief Champions (Best Practices for Safe, Effective Pain Relief) is for clinicians who:

are committed to providing optimal pain care for their patients
want to work collaboratively with colleagues from all disciplines
wish to serve as a resource in their practice environment

Schedule
Day 1, February 8th 2008
7:30am – 8:00am Registration
8:00am – 8:45am Patient rights & professional duty to alleviate pain
8:45am – 9:30am  Bio-psycho-social Perspectives of Pain
9:30am – 9:45am BREAK
9:45am – 11:00am Pain Assessment
11:00am – 12:00pm Non-opioid Analgesics and Adjuvants
12:00pm – 1:00pm LUNCH
1:00pm – 2:00pm Opioid Analgesics and Equianlagesic conversion
2:00pm – 3:00pm Comprehensive Pain Treatment Planning: Overview
3:00pm – 3:15pm BREAK
3:15pm – 4:15pm Comprehensive Pain Treatment Planning: Acute,
                             nociceptive versus chronic neuropathic pain
4:15pm – 4:45pm  Summary and Evaluation of Day 1

Day 2, February 22nd, 2008
7:30am – 8:00am Registration and Welcome
8:00am – 9:00am  Advanced technology & innovative pain management
9:00am – 9:30am Non-drug Pain Relief Techniques
9:30am – 10:00am   Cultural & ethnic factors affecting pain
10:00am – 10:30am BREAK
10:30am – 11:30am Case-based learning with challenging patients
11:30am – 12:30pm LUNCH (on own)
12:30pm – 2:30pm   Relieving Pain in Specific Population
2:30pm – 2:45pm BREAK
2:45pm – 3:45pm  Balancing Concerns About Pain and Addiction
3:45pm – 4:15pm Improving Quality & Safety of Professional Practice
4:15pm – 4:45pm  Summary, Next Steps, Evaluation & Certificates

Please Note: Certificates are awarded at the end of each day to full-day participants only; evaluation forms must be submitted prior to receiving the certificate.

Faculty
Paul Arnstein, RN-C, PhD, APRN-BC; Clinical Nurse Specialist for Pain Relief at MGH
Kathryn Beauchamp, RN, MSN, CCRN; Clinical Nurse Specialist, PICU
J. Andrew Billings, MD; Chief, MGH Palliative Care Service
Deborah D'Avolio, Ph.D., APRN-BC Geriatric Specialist
Constance Dahlin, APRN, BC, PCM; Nurse Practitioner, Palliative Care
Susan Krupnick, MSN, APRN, BC, CARN; Addictions Consultant, ED
Bob Young R.Ph MGH Department of Pharmacy

Continuing Education Credit
Nurses, pharmacists and physicians who participate in this activity may receive continuing education credit for each day of participation provided they

sign in each day
attend all sessions that day
complete and turn in an evaluation form each day, and
are professionally eligible

Massachusetts General Hospital (OH 239/10-1-08) is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Ohio Nurses Association (OBN-001-91), an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Category 1 CME's credit is pending through the Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education.

Pharmacists registered in Massachusetts may submit CME-1 credits as part of the continuing education requirement for licensure renewal. Pharmacists should check with the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Pharmacy if they have questions. Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to award AMA/PRA category 1 credit™ to those activities that meet HMS and ACCME criteria for approval.

Course Brochure
Click here for a printable PDF of the Pain Relief Champions course brochure.

Application
Any professional in any clinical discipline is invited to take the course and become a Pain Relief Champion. We encourage multiple people from the same unit or setting to attend, so that you have a ready-made team with which to work after the course. You, your unit, clinic or team, and the institution will get the most from your participation in the course when:

you are conscious of barriers to pain relief in yourself and your own work setting; and
you make a commitment to identify a project that will improve pain management in your work environment

Tuition
The Pain Relief Champions course is free to MGH employees and Harvard Medial School affiliated Physicians. Other participants are limited to the first 10 registrants, who are admitted without a fee. Lunch is on your own.

Sponsorship
The Pain Relief Champions course is organized and presented by MGH Cares About Pain Relief with administrative support from the Knight Center for Clinical and Professional Development. MGH Cares About Pain Relief is an education and advocacy initiative of Massachusetts General Hospital. The Pain Relief Champions course and MGH Cares About Pain Relief do not receive industry financial support.

Disclosures
All MGH faculty are volunteers and are not being compensated (beyond their normal salary) for their roles in planning or presenting. According to the criteria for potential conflicts of interest, as established by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation, with one exception,* none of the faculty have anything to declare. The Pain Relief Champions course and MGH Cares About Pain Relief do not receive industry financial support.

Some faculty are likely to reference unlabeled or investigational uses of pharmaceutical agents, and will inform the audience when they do so.

For additional information, contact
Paul Arnstein, Clinical Nurse Specialist for Pain Relief
617-724-8517
PainRelief [at] Partners.org

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