Presenter: Rob Henderson, LADC, CTRS
Online CME Credit
Fee: $50.00
Credit must be claimed with 30 days of registering.
Provides 1.00 hour of CE/CME credit
(Presented on May 9, 2025; Reviewed May 16, 2025; Expires May 16, 2028)
Part I: Beyond Pain, Screening & Strategies for Comprehensive Treatment
Overview
This presentation explores the multidimensional experience of pain, emphasizing the importance of recognizing and addressing both pain and suffering in patient care. It highlights a comprehensive approach to pain management, integrating physical, emotional, and psychosocial aspects. Special focus is given to the 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids, which support safer, more individualized pain treatment strategies.
Learning Objectives
Following participation in this course, participants should be able to:
- Outline the recent historical context of prescription opioids in the United States
- Apprise the serious side effects and consequences of opioid misuse and/or long-term use for chronic pain
- Describe important updates to the CDC's newest clinical prescriber guidelines for opioids (2022)
- Define the experience of pain
- Identify the resources for 'Comprehensive Pain Management' (beyond the default practice of prescription opioids)
Instructions for receiving CME/CE credit:
- Click on the registration button above
- Click on the course to register
- Pay for the course
- After payment, you will click begin the activity
- YouTube will be embedded into the website
- Watch the YouTube video
- Click to claim credit
- Enter the activity code that was provided to you in the email confirmation
- Claim credit and generate the certificate
Evaluation and Claim Credit
- Once you begin the video, you must watch it in its entirety to claim credit. Fast-forwarding has been disabled. You may pause the video briefly if needed. Do not close the browser window as doing so will require you to start over.
- Once you have reached the end of the video, a button to continue will appear that will take to evaluation and start the process for receiving a certificate.
- Failure to complete the process will result in the credit not being awarded to you.
- Should you need to restart the process, or download a copy of a certificate at a later time, please see the instructions for accessing the online portal here: Evaluation and Claim Credit
For questions concerning the online evaluation or your certificate, please contact our office at (775) 784-4791 or email us at cme@med.unr.edu.
CME Accreditation and Designation
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and PACT Coalition for Safe and Drug-Free Communities. The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education to physicians.
The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Continuing Education Credit
The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine approves this program for 1.00 hour of nursing continuing education credit. Nevada State Board of Nursing provider number 120894-1.
This program provides 1.00 CME credits towards the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners' requirement for 2 hours of training related to screening, brief intervention & referral to treatment (SBIRT).
The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine is a provider of continuing education credit through the Nevada State Board of Pharmacy. This program is approved for 1.00 hours of continuing education credit for pharmacists.
This program provides 1 CME credit towards the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners' requirement for 2 hours of training related to ethics, pain management, or addiction care during each licensure period.
As an accredited provider of continuing medical education through the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine must ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its educational activities. In order to assure that information is presented in a scientific and objective manner, The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine requires that anyone in a position to control or influence the content of an accredited activity disclose all financial relationships within the prior 24 months with any commercial or proprietary entity producing health care goods or services relevant to the content being planned or presented. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated. Following are those disclosures.
All presenters, planners or anyone in a position to control the content of this continuing medical education activity have indicated that they do not have financial relationships with ineligible companies related to the content of this activity.