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 Discounted: "Building an Institutional Commitment to Pain Management"
This practical resource will help you make high quality, cost-effective pain management a reality in your clinical setting, whether it is a hospital, home care agency, clinic, or long term care facility.
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 Half Off VHS Versions of "Effective Pain Management Practices"!
Featuring essential pain assessment and management skills for nurses, including what to do when opiods aren't managing the pain, how to talk to doctors about pain management and much more. VHS sale prices available while supplies last! Also available on DVD.
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 Pain Resource Nurse Program Curriculum & Planning Guide
This 700+ page guide, which comes with a CD and flashdrive containing the modules and tools in Word and PowerPoint formats, contains materials to support the planning and implementation of a Pain Resource Nurse (PRN) program: nine educational modules, materials for breakout sessions, planning and coordination tools, and an overview of how to initiate and sustain a PRN program.
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 Half Off VHS Versions of "Detecting Discomfort in Dementia"
This video toolkit is designed to teach nursing assistants to identify the behaviors that cognitively impaired residents may show when they are in pain or discomfort, and to understand the ways they can help cognitively impaired residents get relief of their pain or discomfort. Also available on DVD.
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 8 Facts About Cancer Pain
Download a copy of the ASPI's 8 Fact Everyone Should Know About Cancer Pain, or order print copies. |
 Cancer Pain Can Be Relieved
In this booklet, you will find information about cancer pain - and how to manage it. Pain medicines are often needed, but other treatments may be helpful as well. You don’t have to “go it alone.” For best results, you need to work as part of a team with family and friends, and your doctor, nurse, pharmacist and social worker. Available online, as a downloadable pdf or as glossy hard copies from our Resource Center.
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| News |
ASPI 21st Annual Meeting: Save the Date! October 21-23, 2010
Please save the date for the 21st Annual Meeting of the Alliance of State Pain Initiatives, a jointly sponsored continuing medical education activity being held October 21-23, 2010 at the InterContinental Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. We hope many of you will join us in Atlanta! Please watch our website for more details or email Claire Kostechka.
ASPI Webinar on Medical Marijuana
The Alliance of State Pain Initiatives hosted a webinar on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 for State Pain Initiative members and leaders on the use of Medical Marijuana, facilitated by Dr. Barth Wilsey of UC Davis Medical Center.
Health Care Reform: Pain Information
Follow this link for information on the House of Representatives bill 3962, Affordable Health Care for America Act. The information on Pain is in part 4, from page 1491-1501. H.R. 3962.
Responsible Opioid Prescribing - CME Accredited Version and Online Activity Now Available!
 A Continuing Medical Education (CME) accredited version of Responsible Opioid Prescribing: A Physician’s Guide is now available for purchase. The activity, which is jointly sponsored by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, the Alliance of State Pain Initiatives (ASPI), and the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. For more information about the CME activity, including the accreditation information and how to register for the online CME post-test, please click here.
Now Available: Pain Resource Nurse (PRN) Program Curriculum & Planning Guide
The PRN Curriculum and Planning Guide--a tool-kit designed to assist clinicians/educators in hospital settings in coordinating and implementing a Pain Resource Nurse (PRN) Program--is now available for purchase via the ASPI Resource Center. The Guide includes content on the prevalence and impact of pain, basic pain physiology, assessment of pain, pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments, methods of drug delivery, acute and chronic pain, cancer pain, management of pain in patients with substance abuse, and the PRN role. The Guide also provides an overview of the PRN Program concept; practical tips on how to coordinate, budget, and evaluate a PRN training course; and information on how to support and engage the PRNs who are trained. All of the key planning and educational materials are available as electronic files on the included CD ROM and flash drive.
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