Recent Guideline Recommendations for Pain Management in Older Adults

Pacific NW Chapter of ASPMN Presents: 

Recent Guideline Recommendations for Pain Management in Older Adults

May, 23rd 2024: Zoom Event

Pamela Stitzlein Davies, MS, ARNP, FAANP

Join us on May 23rd as Pamela Davies discusses pain management and assessment strategies in older adults. There are many factors and we want to give you the knowledge and tools to assess and create decision making strategies to help this patient population. 

Objectives:

1. Review challenges of pain assessment and management in the older adult.
2. Provide an overview of recommendations for pain management in older adults, focusing on the 2023 Bree Collaborative and the American Geriatric Society’s 2023 updated Beers Criteria® for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults.
3. Discuss decision-making strategies when incorporating recommendations into practice.

Cost: Free

Registration: On our website The Pacific Northwest Chapter of ASPMN | Nursing Network

Agenda: Zoom information will be sent upon registration

        5:30 - 5:45: Brief Chapter Meeting

        5:45 - 6:30: Interdisciplinary Approach to Chronic Pain Management

        6:30 - 7:00: Q/A Session with Wrap-Up

Planning committee members: 

• Kevin Letter BSN, RN

The presenter and planning committee members report no conflicts of interest. 

The Greater Kansas City Chapter of the American Society for Pain Management Nursing is approved as a provider of continuing nursing education by the Kansas State Board of Nursing.  This course offering is approved for 1.5 CNE applicable for RN, LPN, or LMHT relicensure. 0.6 of these is pharmaceutical contact hours for APN are included.  Kansas State Board of Nursing Provider Number: LT0279-0412 GKCC557

Sponsoring organization:

ASPMN-PNW; PO Box 10086, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110