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Course 1: Pain and its Impact on Our Patients
Course 1 of 10
Learn to define and characterize pain, recognize the prevalence of pain, understand disparities in pain management based on race, ethnicity, and gender.
Pain Management: Relieving Suffering and Reducing Risk
Receive CAPC Designation
What You’ll Learn
CAPC’s Pain Management unit offers comprehensive training in the current best practices in evidence-based pain management for people with serious illness. This includes how to perform a comprehensive pain assessment, create an effective pain treatment plan, recommend both non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic treatments, assess risk for substance use disorder, and safely monitor and prescribe opioids.
CAPC Designation
Take all 10 courses in this unit to achieve CAPC Designation status in pain management. Designation can be added to your performance file or resume to indicate comprehensive training in pain management and safe opioid prescribing for patients with serious illness.
What You’ll Earn
CAPC members can earn the following free continuing education credits and MOC credits:
- 15.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
- Case Management: 7.50 CE
- Nursing: 17.50 CNE, 9.00 Pharmacotherapy
- Social Work: 7.50 CE (NYSED)
Social work credits are approved by the New York State Education Department. Social workers licensed outside of New York should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval for continuing education credits for courses without national social work accreditation.
Learn more about becoming a CAPC member.
The continuing education values listed on this page apply to the current term of accreditation for the courses in this unit. See individual course pages for more information about the accrediting bodies.
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Course 2: How to Perform a Comprehensive Pain Assessment
Course 2 of 10
Learn the components of a comprehensive pain assessment and its importance in safe and effective pain management.
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Course 3: Matching Treatment to Pain Type
Course 3 of 10
Gain an overview of pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic pain treatments, including risks and benefits, and learn how to match the analgesic to pain type.
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Course 4: Prescribing an Opioid
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Learn how to decide on an appropriate opioid, route of delivery, and dose, and understand how to prescribe for incident and breakthrough pain.
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Course 5: Practice Prescribing an Opioid
Course 5 of 10
Practice prescribing initial opioid doses for different pain types and characteristics. Learn to adjust dosing as needed to manage pain effectively.
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Course 6: Creating a Pain Treatment Plan and Monitoring Effectiveness
Course 6 of 10
Learn to develop a pain treatment plan with realistic goals and proper documentation, and implement universal precautions to help with the risk of opioid use disorder.
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Course 7: Advanced Opioid Prescribing: Converting to Long-Acting Opioids
Course 7 of 10
Learn how to convert from short-acting to long-acting opioids, and calculate rescue doses for breakthrough pain using updated equianalgesic tools.
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Course 8: Problems with Opioid Prescribing: Is it an Opioid Use Disorder?
Course 8 of 10
Learn how to identify and diagnose opioid use disorder (OUD) and practice communicating with patients about OUD and pain management.
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Course 9: Using Buprenorphine for Chronic Pain and Opioid Use Disorder
Course 9 of 10
Determine which patients may benefit from buprenorphine as a treatment for pain and opioid use disorder (OUD), and learn how to transition patients to buprenorphine.
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Course 10: Managing IV Opioids
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Learn how to convert patients back and forth from oral to IV opioid formulations, how to prescribe patient-controlled analgesia (PCA), and how to treat acute pain crises.