Constance Dahlin, MSN, ANP-BC, ACHPN, FPCN, FAAN
Constance Dahlin has extensive administrative, clinical, and academic experience in hospice and palliative care across the health continuum. Currently, Ms. Dahlin is a consultant to the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) in community-based care and education. She is director of the Palliative Care APP Externship and a palliative nurse practitioner at Salem Hospital and adjunct faculty at the University of Maryland Graduate Program in Palliative Care and the MGH Institute of Health Professions. She serves on the AHA Circle of Life Committee and the Mass Serious Illness Coalition Nursing Taskforce. Ms. Dahlin served as author for the Palliative Nursing: Scope and Standards, Hospice and Palliative APRN Professional Practice Guide and A Primer of Reimbursement, Billing, and Coding: Essential Information for the Hospice and Palliative Advanced Practice Registered Nurse. She is coeditor of the Oxford University Press Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing and the Pocket Guide and edited the second and third editions of the National Consensus Project’s Clinical Practice Guidelines for Palliative Care. She served on Measurement Applications Partnership PAC/LTC Workgroup, Measurement Applications Partnership Clinician Workgroup, and co-chaired the Massachusetts Comprehensive Cancer Control and Prevention Network Palliative Care Workgroup.
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Courses
Course 1 of 14
Conducting a comprehensive pain assessment to guide safe and effective treatment.
Course 2 of 14
Selecting a safe and appropriate analgesic for patients with serious illness based on the pain assessment.
Course 3 of 14
Patient and family factors that influence prescribing decisions for patients with serious illness.
Course 4 of 14
Integrating routine risk assessment for substance use disorder when considering or using opioid therapy.
Course 5 of 14
Designing a safe and effective opioid trial for the patient with serious illness.
Course 6 of 14
Safe and appropriate opioid prescribing for the opioid-naive patient with serious illness.
Course 7 of 14
Four indications for using short-acting opioids.
Course 8 of 14
Ongoing evaluation of opioid benefits, risks, and side effects for the patient with serious illness.
Course 9 of 14
Guidance on safe conversion to long-acting opioids for patients with serious illness.
Course 10 of 14
Prescribing practice for long half-life opioids, converting from one opioid to another, and accounting for incomplete cross-tolerance.
Course 11 of 14
Changing the route of opioid delivery, rotating opioids, advanced opioid conversions, and tapering opioids.
Course 13 of 14
Pain management for patients with serious illness and high risk for substance use disorder, including risk assessment, monitoring, and when to refer for safe pain management.
Course 14 of 14
Safe opioid prescribing for patients with serious illness, using the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) Guidelines for the Chronic Use of Opioid Analgesics.
Course 1 of 4
Clinical training on the biological basis of chronic pain, building patient trust, and non-pharmacological and non-opioid treatments for managing chronic pain in patients with serious illness.
Course 2 of 4
Clinical training on prescribing an opioid trial for the management of a seriously ill patient's chronic pain.
Course 3 of 4
Clinical training course on universal precautions to identify and assess opioid misuse, and prevent opioid use disorder (OUD) in patients with serious illness.
Course 4 of 4
Clinical training course for identifying and managing opioid use disorder (OUD) in patients with serious illness, and treating pain in seriously ill patients with OUD.
Defining community-based palliative care: which patients need it, how it is delivered, and how it differs from inpatient palliative care.
Evaluating patient need, service requirements, care settings, and stakeholder priorities for the community-based palliative care program.
Designing and implementing an office-based palliative care program, including clinical model and operational considerations.
