Course Description
Course Description:
Nurse Practitioners (NPs), Physician Assistants (PAs), Pharmacists, and Dentists care for patients with disorders in many healthcare settings. Individuals may seek care for an acute illness or worsening of a chronic condition. Often, pain is the leading reason for seeking medical care. Appropriate prescribing practices are critical for all medications, but controlled substances require special attention. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) all have a role in controlled medication schedules. Prescribers must understand federal and state requirements for all controlled substances. This course will provide a general review of federal and state-controlled substance regulations and the prescribing practices for controlled substances. Additionally, substance use disorders are complex phenomena affecting many lives. This course also reviews common substance use disorders, including alcohol, anxiolytics, stimulants, hallucinogens, and tobacco/vaping. However, the focus is on clinical safety considerations when prescribing non-cancer-related opioid medications for acute/chronic pain in adults. This course meets the requirements for DEA controlled substances prescribing.
Contact Hours: 8
Target Audience:
Instructional Level: IntermediateAccreditation Information:
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Course Goals & Objectives:
Course Goals:
Prescribers must understand federal and state requirements for prescribing all controlled substances. In addition, inappropriate prescribing practices resulting in misuse/or abuse of opioids has led to many changes, including new safety and quality recommendations. 
Learning Outcomes:
- Differentiate among substance use disorders and associated concepts
- Controlled substance act
- Examine the roles of the DEA, FDA, and HHS in scheduling-controlled substances and enforcing controlled substance laws and regulations
- DEA Controlled Substance Schedules
- Schedules of a controlled substance (I, II, III, IV, V)
- Differentiate the different DEA Controlled Substance Schedules and prescribing regulations associated with the different DEA Controlled Substance Schedules. 
- Examine medical marijuana legislation
- Describe essential considerations when prescribing controlled substances, including regulatory exceptions and clinical concerns
- Nurse practitioners prescribing controlled substances: requirements
- Integrative Therapies
- Controlled substance prescribing practices
- Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs)
- Electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS)
- Facsimile and oral prescriptions for Schedule II controlled substances
- FDA warning for codeine- and hydrocodone-containing cough and cold products
- Special consierations for nurse practitioners prescribing controlled substances
Disclosures:
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Contact Hours: 8 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).
Target Audience: Nursing
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Criteria for Completion: Criteria for Completion: A score of 75% or more is considered passing. Scores of less than 75% indicate a failure to understand the material and the test will need to be taken again until a passing score has been achieved.
Personnel Disclosure:
Financial – Humberto Reinoso and Robyn Caldwell are employed and receive salaries. They receive payment from Colibri Healthcare, LLC for the presentation of this course.
Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
No relevant conflicts of interest exist for any member of the activity planning committee.
Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service
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