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Practical Nursing Strategies in Suicide Prevention

Contact Hours: 1.5
This course supports and strengthens nurses, in non-mental health settings, providing a skillset to screen and provide life-saving interventions for patients at risk for suicide.

Motivational Interviewing: Practical Strategies for Nurses

Contact Hours: 3.5
What is Motivational Interviewing (MI) and how should nurses use it? At its heart, MI aligns with the foundational nursing theories of Peplau, Watson, and Polly Ryan. It is a

Effective Treatments for Opioid Use Disorders (APRN)

Contact Hours: 3.5
This course consists of three separate modules. In this course you will learn about the epidemiology surrounding the use of opioids in the United States.

Effective Treatments for Opioid Use Disorders (RN)

Contact Hours: 1.5
Learn about the epidemiology surrounding the use of opioids in the United States. The APNA Scope and Standards of Practice (3rd edition) for the psychiatric-mental health nurse will be

Computer-Based Learning for Opioid Use Disorder (CLOUD)

Contact Hours: 0.5
This presentation introduces the implementation of an evidence-based intervention that can be accessed over the web by patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) in a community integrated-care setting

Helping Older Adults with Opioid Use Disorders Stay Healthy and in Recovery

Contact Hours: 0.5
This presentation will describe the demographics and the most common co-occurring medical, psychiatric, and substance use disorders in older adults with opioid use disorders in FQHC clinics in lower

Addressing Bias and Stigma in the Language We Use with Persons with Opioid Use Disorder

Contact Hours: 0.75
This presentation will describe difficulties with access to care of opioid use disorders (OUDs), the stigmatizing languages that presents barriers to effective care, and suggest alternative language to be used

Closing the Opioid Treatment Gap through Advance Practice Nursing Activation

Contact Hours: 0.25
We present curricular design and measurable objectives for a course that prepares APRN students to deliver medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), especially for under-served populations.

Meet OWEP! Opioid Substance Use Disorders Recovery/Systems-Oriented Practice in Integrated Health Care/Telehealth

Contact Hours: 1.5
This exciting presentation informs RN/APN of OID/SUD updates to care setting options adopted from a Graduate Nursing IOD/SUD HRSA funded recovery-based program intended to empower APNs

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