Learning Module for Essentials 3: Pain Assessment and Management

Learning Module for Essentials 3: Pain Assessment and Management is organized by American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM).

Release Date: 31/08/2020
Expiration Date: 18/09/2023

Description:
This learning module corresponds to the third book in the Essentials series, focusing pain assessment and management. This module serves as a tool for orientation, ongoing assessment and training in treatment strategies and opioid responses, pathways to pain, main assessment tools and questionnaires, and more. Instead of traditional posttests, each Essentials book has a corresponding online confidence-based learning module, delivered using amplifire™ software. This system serves as a great tool for orientation, ongoing assessment, and training. The learning modules are designed to test your level of knowledge and level of confidence in each topic area presented in the book series.      

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this online module the learner should be better able to:

• Assess the difference between acute and chronic pain in terms of treatment strategies and opioid responses
• Understand opioid pharmacology and its clinical importance
• Understand pain pathways, phenotypes and the importance of these pathways to cancer pain management strategies
• Understand cancer bone pain and neuropathic pain mechanisms and how these mechanisms related to targeted pain management
• Better assess pain using multiple pain assessment tools and questionnaires
• Better determine when diagnostic tests should be used in assessing pain syndromes
• Rationally choose an opioid based on patient and clinical characteristics and context
• Convert opioid equivalents and adjust opioids using opioid conversion tables and guidelines
• Understand the limitations of equianalgesic tables
• Convert opioids from oral to alternative routes (intravenous, subcutaneous, rectal, and spinal)
• Understand spinal analgesia and drug choices
• Recite adjuvant analgesic classes, understand the pharmacology of each class and when each class should be used and not used
• Appropriately titrate opioids based upon pain intensity
• Identify and treat opioid side effects
• Appropriately treat cancer pain in someone with an addiction disorder