Adult Nurse Practitioner Stanford Health Care - Division Pain Medicine Division Pain Medicine, Stanford Health Care San Carlos, California
You’ve tried medications, you’ve tried interventions, you’ve tried physical therapy, now what? Out with the old and in with the new?
As healthcare changes, so does the way that healthcare professionals interact and collaborate. Never has this been truer in the model of multidisciplinary/multimodal pain management. In an effort to treat patients from a biopsychosocial-spiritual model of care, it really takes a village.
This timely lecture will focus on the importance of managing pain with a team-based approach, through the review of complex case studies on common, otherwise challenging to manage pain scenarios. Focus will be placed on educating the audience about a newer perspective on patient centered pain management. It’s time to STOP blaming the patient and the system for poor outcomes and start thinking about changing the way we think about assessment and treatment of patients with chronic pain.
Learning Objectives:
Identify two non-medical treatment strategies for pain management
Discuss basic rational behind why multimodal treatment is vital.
Discuss strategies for optimal patient care in pain management.
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