Pain and Pain Symptom Management for Michigan Nurses is organized by Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc.

Expiration Date: 2025-07-31

Course Description:
MANDATORY MICHIGAN NURSING CEU. This nursing CEU course fulfills the requirement for 2 contact hours in pain and symptom management for each MI nursing license renewal. Covers understanding and responding to misuse, abuse, and diversion of opioids in providing pain management; assessing risk for substance abuse disorders; and efforts to address the problem.

Learning Objectives:
• Discuss pain and the experience of pain.
• Outline the elements of a comprehensive pain assessment.
• Describe pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic interventions for pain.
• Summarize issues concerning the use of controlled substances in pain management.