• Pain Manag Nurs · Feb 2020

    Review

    Nursing Education in the Midst of the Opioid Crisis.

    • Peggy Compton and Suzan Blacher.
    • School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: pcompton@nursing.upenn.edu.
    • Pain Manag Nurs. 2020 Feb 1; 21 (1): 35-42.

    ObjectivesThe current opioid addiction crisis highlights two chronic health conditions which have traditionally received relatively little emphasis in nursing curricula: addiction and chronic pain. In an effort to provide direction to nursing programs in the US on the curriculum needed to prepare students to care for patients and meaningfully intervene in the opioid crisis, this paper presents an overview of the curricular elements which require integration.Design And Data SourcesSpecifically, the state of current nursing education in pain and addiction are reviewed, followed by foundational knowledge for nursing practice to address the opioid crisis.Review/Analysis MethodsPractice competencies for generalist registered nurses as well as advanced practice nurses will then be detailed, and, recognizing the role nurses play in policy development and implementation, policy interventions to address the opioid crisis will also be presented.Result And ConclusionsBoth addiction and chronic pain are sources of suffering for patients; the key role nursing can play in reducing the experience of these illnesses in these vulnerable populations is critical to addressing the opioid addiction crisis.Copyright © 2020 American Society for Pain Management Nursing. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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