2-Hour
- Use subjective and objective pain data to make clinical decisions about the use of analgesic drugs in people facing the end-of-life transition.
- Describe the pathophysiologic consequences of unrelieved pain.
- Differentiate indications for the use of NSAIDs, acetaminophen, opioids, and adjuvant analgesic drugs.
- Calculate equianalgesic doses of morphine, hydromorphone, codeine, and oxycodone.
8-Hour
- Use subjective and objective pain data to make clinical decisions about the use of analgesic drugs in people facing the end-of-life transition.
- Describe the pathophysiologic consequences of unrelieved pain.
- Differentiate indications for the use of NSAIDs, acetaminophen, opioids, and adjuvant analgesic drugs.
- Calculate equianalgesic doses of morphine, hydromorphone, codeine, and oxycodone.
- Document and communicate information about the pain experience that
healthcare providers need so they can make clinical decisions.
- Defend the provision of comfort care to the dying as an active, desirable, and important service that is not assisted suicide or euthanasia.
- Apply current knowledge about pain mechanisms to the assessment and management of nociceptive and neuropathic pain.
- Apply knowledge of pharmacokinetics in planning care for patients in pain.
- Recognize and relieve symptoms commonly occurring at the end of life.
- Evaluate the impact of all therapies in end-of-life care on the quality of life experienced by the dying person and by his/her family.
- Recognize and prepare the patient and family for decline in physical condition and perhaps in emotional, cognitive, and behavioral status.
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