CE: Acute Pain Management for Inpatients with Opioid Use Disorder.
Like most hospital inpatients, those with opioid use disorder (OUD) often experience acute pain during their hospital stay and may require opioid analgesics. Unfortunately, owing to clinicians' misconceptions about opioids and negative attitudes toward patients with OUD, such patients may be inadequately medicated and thus subjected to unrelieved pain and unnecessary suffering. This article reviews current literature on the topic of acute pain management for inpatients with OUD and dispels common myths about opioids and OUD.
Zoe Paschkis is scheduled to graduate this month with an MS, BSN from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions (MGHIHP) NP program, Boston. Mertie L. Potter is a professor of nursing at the MGHIHP and an NP at the Merrimack Valley Counseling Center, Nashua, NH. The authors acknowledge Steve Ciesielski for providing helpful comments as they prepared the manuscript for submission. Contact author: Zoe Paschkis, zpaschkis@gmail.com. The authors and planners have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
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D059787:Acute Pain / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000451:nursing*; D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004361:Drug Tolerance / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D058850:Opiate Substitution Treatment / Q000451:nursing / Q000592:standards; D009293:Opioid-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000451:nursing; D059408:Pain Management / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing / Q000592:standards*; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing / Q000592:standards
D000701:Analgesics, Opioid