Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1. Identify ways to promote opioid stewardship.
2. Describe 3 complementary pain management strategies utilized in HVCC.
3. Discuss how technology and education is utilized to bring awareness to opioid consumption.

Faculty

Kim Grady, MSN, RN
Nurse Educator, Heart and Vascular Critical Care

Cheryl Crisafi, MSN, RN, CNL
Nurse Coordinator Cardiac Surgery

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education (CE) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options. Any relevant financial relationships are mitigated prior to the educational activity.

None of the planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.                                                                                

Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, Baystate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

Nurses
Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 contact hour(s).  Nurses should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.