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Motivational Interviewing: Practical Strategies for Nurses

Contact Hours: 3.5
FREE for APNA Members! Learn how to effectively use this foundational skillset in your practice with this 5-part program that offers practical strategies.

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

Increasing Access to Buprenorphine for Individuals with Opioid Use Disorder: DATA Waiver Training Overview and Nursing Curricula Recommendations

Contact Hours: 0.75
This presentation will discuss increasing access to treatment for individuals with OUD through the use of the DATA waiver/exemption. Suggestions for DATA waiver training inclusion in graduate nursing school

Retrospective Study on the Effects Of Extended-Release Naltrexone (XR-NTX) Injection Among Justice-Involved Adults Misusing Opioids Released from Correctional Facilities In Louisiana

Contact Hours: 0.5
This presentation highlights the results of the first retrospective study on extended-released naltrexone offered by the Medication-for Opioid Use Disorder (MAT) Program by the Department of Corrections in

Goodbye X-Waiver: Good News for PMHNPs and for the Treatment of People with Opioid Use Disorder

Contact Hours: 0.75
This interactive presentation discusses the 2023 legislation eliminating the DEA X-Waiver buprenorphine prescription requirement and the implications for clinical practice.

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