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This important national conference provides an essential update for current and aspiring nurse prescribers on prescribing for pain. Pain is a growing area of nurse prescribing and one of the most common areas. This makes it essential that nurse prescribers maintain the competence and skills to prescribe for pain in an effective way, working with patients to improve pain outcomes both in the inpatient setting and the community.
Through national updates and extended interactive practical case studies delegates will hear how to develop and maintain prescribing competence, and how to develop effectiveness in post qualification practice. The conference will also reflect on pain prescribing during the Covid-19 pandemic, update delegates on the NICE Guideline on Chronic Pain, and on current developments with regard to opioid prescribing.
There will also be an extended focus on pain in the older person following the British Pain Society guidance in December 2020 which states that “The incidence of side effects with drug therapy is higher in older people, particularly in the presence of co-morbidities and polypharmacy. These factors need to be carefully considered when introducing new medication to minimise the chance of drug–disease and drug–drug interactions.”
“Treatment of pain is a fundamental human right, yet sadly there is an enormous gap between the care people require and what happens in practice.”
“Management of pain must be considered as an important component of the health care provided to all people, regardless of their chronological age or severity of illness…To use the recommended therapeutic approaches, clinicians must be familiar with adverse effects of treatment and the potential for drug interactions.”
This conference will enable you to:
- Network with colleagues who are working to improving nurse prescribing for pain
- Learn from outstanding practice in management of pain
- Reflect on Pain management and Prescribing through case study presentations
- Understand the impact and implications of the Covid-19 pandemic on nurse prescribing for pain
- Develop your skills in pain assessment
- Understanding how assessment tools, outcome scales and measures can improve your service
- Learn how to use the National Prescribing Competency Framework
- Understand how to effectively develop, demonstrate and maintain continued competence in Prescribing for Pain
- Reflect on lessons from experts in nurse prescribing for specific case study areas with in depth interactive sessions focusing on Pain and opioids: minimise risks, Chronic Pain, Inpatient Pain, Pain in the Older Person, Cancer and End of Life Care Pain
- Implications of the 2020 NICE guidance for assessment and management of chronic pain
- Working with patients with co-morbidity
- Identify key strategies for improving nurse prescribing practice for pain
- Develop your role and confidence as a nurse prescriber
- Self assess, reflect and expand your skills in prescribing practice whilst understanding your limits of practice
