Center for Professional Practice of Nursing

Center for Professional Practice of Nursing

Pain Management

2013

September 4 November 27


8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Broadway Building, Suite 1630
Course # 07524

Capacity: 35

Course description

This course will address current methods of achieving pain management in patient care. Areas to be addressed include characteristics of pain, analgesics and dose ranges, pain measurement, patient advocacy issues, policy review and patient education. Epidural use and policies will be covered, plus hands-on pump practice. Issues surrounding pain management in special populations such as pregnancy, pediatrics, neurologically impaired, substance abuse and palliative pain control will be explored.

C.E. contact hours

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP 26, for 6.5 contact hours.

 align= UC Davis Medical Center is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Attendees will not receive C.E. credit if they are more than 20 minutes late; no partial credit can be awarded.

Registration

Please select a class date above and complete the registration form. If using a credit card, submit the registration form and phone in your credit card number to (916) 734-9790. If paying by check, please print the registration form, attach your check made payable to UC Regents dated for the date of the class, and mail to: 

Center for Professional Practice of Nursing
4900 Broadway, Suite 1630
Sacramento, CA 95820

Registrations are confirmed only if deposit or fee is provided with registration form.

UC Davis employees

$25 registration deposit. Registration deposit is returned upon completion of class. Cancellation must be requested five days prior to class date to receive deposit refund.

Community registrants

$98 registration fee. Cancellation must be requested five days prior to class date to receive a full refund. A $25 service fee will be charged after this date.

Persons with disabilities

Individuals needing special accommodations may call the Center for Professional Practice of Nursing at (916) 734-9790.

Parking

Parking is available in lot 25, approximately one block from the Broadway Building on 50th Street adjacent to the MIND Institute. Park with a UC Davis parking permit, or purchase a daily permit for $6.

Coordinator

Jim Hill, R.N., M.S.N.
Nurse Educator