Address the opioid epidemic with confidence
Equip your staff with the knowledge and confidence needed to identify opioid use disorder, improve patient safety, and effect change in the communities you serve.
Reduce risk
Increase patient safety
Focus on quality care
.png)
Advance better practices for pain management & opioid stewardship
The United States continues to feel the staggering impact of the opioid epidemic - the greatest public health crisis in U.S. History.
In response to this crisis, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) is focusing its efforts on five major priorities:
1. Improving access to treatment
2. Promoting use of overdose-reducing medications
3. Public Health Surveillance
4. Research on Pain & Addiction
5. Advance better practices for pain management
HealthStream is here to help. We are proud to partner with the industry recognized leader in quality, The National Quality Forum. No matter where your organization is at in your journey to tackle the opioid epidemic, we have a solution that can fit your needs.
HealthStream's Opioid-Related Education will help your organization:
Promote better opioid prescribing practices
.svg)
Increase patient safety and protect your organization
Enhance care success
- General Education for all staff
- Continuing education credits available
- Identify and address Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)
- Developed in partnership with the National Quality Forum
- Concrete tactics for implementation
- Two focused curricular tracks addressing leaders and clinical staff
- Comprehensive micro-certification program geared towards clinicians
- Addresses Opioid Use Disorder, addiction, and effective pain management
- Continuing education credits & organizational toolkit available
Fight the opioid crisis and reduce the risk of opioid use disorders, overdoses, inappropriate prescribing, and drug diversion with education.
HealthStream’s Opioid Training Curriculum is comprised of two courses promoting opioid addiction understanding. A general overview course is supplemented by a specialized second course designed for clinicians that includes CE credit.
The Opioid-Stewardship Program is an educational series built in partnership with the National Quality Forum (NQF) and based on their NQP Opioid Stewardship Playbook. This series goes beyond facts and figures about the opioid crisis to provide concrete strategies and implementation examples for healthcare organizations and clinicians.
Opioids: Tackling the Crisis Through Person-Centered Care bundle is designed to train clinicians and all staff on identifying opioid use disorder. These courses are designed to address the growing opioid crisis by providing all clinicians and staff with the tools they need to understand how good intentions to manage pain can evolve into devastatingly negative patient outcomes. Customers can annotate these courses as well to include state- or facility-specific information.
Resources & Articles
Opioids: A National Health Crisis
As the opioid crisis continues to unfold across the United States, healthcare providers are increasingly caught in the crosshairs of a dilemma: How can they provide the highest quality patient care while also complying with federal, state, and local mandates around prescribing and reporting abuse?
As a healthcare leader, are you:
- Able to identify opioid use disorder?
- Focused on reducing risk and increasing patient safety?
- Promoting safe opioid prescribing practices?
See how HealthStream’s Opioid Programs can protect your organization.