{"id":6065,"date":"2017-10-23T15:56:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T15:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/?p=6065"},"modified":"2018-09-28T10:20:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T14:20:39","slug":"nursing-education-center-workshop-to-tackle-opioid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/2017\/10\/23\/nursing-education-center-workshop-to-tackle-opioid-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing Education Center Workshop to tackle opioid crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seminar in Providence geared toward nurse practitioners, nurse practitioner students<\/h4>\n

Drug overdoses in Rhode Island and across the country are increasing every year, and opioid addiction has reached epidemic levels. In Rhode Island alone, more than 1,000 people have died of an opioid overdose in the last five years.<\/p>\n

Street drugs like heroin are only part of the problem. Prescription pain medications like hydrocodone, pxycodone and fentanyl play a significant role in the opioid crisis. In fact, fentanyl accounts for more than half of overdose deaths in Rhode Island, according to the state Department of Health.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter what the access point is (for addicts), before you can drag them out of the river, you have to know how they got there,\u201d said Denise Coppa, associate professor and interim associate dean of graduate nursing at URI. \u201cWe want to have a better sense of how to prescribe and how to sustain people in medication-assisted therapies and complimentary therapies.\u201d<\/p>\n

To that end, the Rhode Island Nursing Education Center<\/a> in Providence is scheduled to host a workshop for nurse practitioners and nurse practitioner students on opioid prescribing and medically assisted therapies on Nov. 18. The workshop will include seminars on rules and policies of opioid prescribing, safe practices for opioid prescribing, and medically assisted alternatives to managing pain, including acupuncture and physical therapy.<\/p>\n

The workshop \u2014 a partnership among URI, the Nurse Practitioner Alliance of Rhode Island (NPARI), the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Thundermist Health Center and Providence Community Health Center \u2014 is funded by a grant from the Health Resources & Services Administration. It is open to nurse practitioners and students throughout the region, and is free for NPARI members and students, and nurse practitioners at Thundermist and Providence Community Health.<\/p>\n

Coppa, who is hosting the workshop and will lead a lunchtime discussion on \u201cExcellence in Precepting,\u201d said she is anticipating as many as 100 nurse practitioners to attend to expand their education and become leaders in the battle against the opioid crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main objective is to increase workforce education for nurse practitioners,\u201d Coppa said.<\/p>\n

The workshop is scheduled for Nov. 18, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Nursing Education Center, 350 Eddy St., Providence. The seminar costs $60 for non-NPARI members, and $50 for non-member students. To register, visit npari.enpnetwork.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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