Friday, May 9, 2025 | 12:00 p.m – 2:00 p.m.
Virtual Program
Beyond Pain, Screening & Strategies for Comprehensive Treatment
Overview
This two-hour webinar will cover two key approaches for addressing substance use and pain in healthcare and community settings.
Part one will focus on SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment), an evidence-based model to identify and address risky substance use early. Participants will learn SBIRT’s core components and applications in various care environments.
Part two explores pain management, distinguishing between pain and suffering in clinical care. Attendees will learn a comprehensive approach integrating physical, emotional, and psychosocial aspects, along with the 2022 CDC Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids.
These sessions aim to enhance compassionate, integrated care for individuals facing substance use and chronic pain, providing actionable strategies for diverse practice settings.
Learning Objectives
Following participation in this course, participants should be able to:
- Choose a substance use screening tool suited to their practice setting
- Apply evidence-based techniques for providing a brief intervention
- Develop their practice's process for referring patients
- Outline the recent historical context of prescription opioids in the United States
- Appraise 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)
Who Should Attend
This program is geared towards healthcare prescribers working with adults with pain.
Registration - $35.00
The last day to register is May 2, 2025.
For additional information, multiple registrants, or to pay-by-check, please call (775) 784-4791 or email skgeorge@med.unr.edu.
Program Support
This project has been funded by grant number NH28CE003534 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by the CDC, or the U.S. Government.
Elizabeth Fildes, EdD, RN, CNE, PHNA-BC, FAAN
Professor, MSN Specialty/Accelerated Tracks, Chamberlain College of Nursing
Dr. Elizabeth Fildes is a Filipino-American nurse leader who demonstrates passion and sustained commitment to improving the health outcomes of persons in Nevada and the Philippines who suffer from tobacco use and addictions in all its forms. Her unique, systematic approach has included mobilizing healthcare providers to provide brief interventions and therapeutic interventions to improve population health, directly supporting the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and the WHO Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals. Her progressive track record spanning almost three decades of addressing chronic disease prevention and substance use disorders control as an educator, researcher, and international collaborator reflects successful ventures to seed ideas for healthcare, public health, and policy stakeholders, secure significant funding, and bring cutting-edge programs to fruition through partnerships and empowerment of nurses. She has implemented programs that have impacted the individual, community, and country levels. With faculty and student collaboration to augment population health interventions, she applied cross-cultural solutions to impact clinical services and educational curricula significantly.
She is a Fulbright Specialist, Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the International Nurses Society on Addictions, a Board-Certified Advanced Public Health Nurse, and a Certified Nurse Educator. She received her BSN degree at the University of Santo Tomas School of Nursing, Manila, Philippines, her MA degree at Teachers College, New York, and her doctoral degree from Loyola University, Chicago.
Rob Henderson, LADC, CTRS
Experiential Trainer, President, RITE Trainings
Rob Henderson is a dually licensed recreation therapist and addiction counselor who specializes in behavioral health service delivery; both private practice and professional training and development. With a career spanning clinical, administrative, and academic roles, he has served communities across the South- and Mountain-West United States and is expanding. Rob is the president and (co)founder of four behavioral health organizations: A.R.E. (www.AREtherapy.com), a recreation and adventure therapy provider; RITE Trainings (www.RITEtrainings.org), a behavioral health training organization; Recovery Park Homes (www.RecoveryParkHomes.org), a recovery residence for women and children; and most recently, Foundation 4 Therapeutic Recreation, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to adventure-based healing for underserved populations (website coming).
Beyond his professional work, Rob is an experienced backcountry guide and adventure enthusiast. He shares his passion for the outdoors and music with his wife, Heather—his closest friend and business partner—alongside their large, lively family, often found exploring nature or enjoying family-room jam sessions.
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 2.00 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 2.00 hours of nursing continuing education credit. Nevada State Board of Nursing provider number 120894-1.
This program provides 2.00 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 2.00 hours of continuing education credit for pharmacists.
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.