Leadership, Management, Followership
What are the traits of nurse followership?
Cooperative behaviors
Effective communication
Willingness to both follow and lead their peers
What is an opioid antagonist nurses should effectively communicate and provide education on?
Narcan
Prolonged stress is caused by
Number of patients
Long shifts
Stressful specialty
Three main components of Evidence-based practice (EBP)
Utilize the best external evidence
Draw on individual clinical expertise
Consider patient values and expectations
This type of budget includes the cost of labor.
What is the Operating Budget?
What is nursing management?
A process of utilizing evidence-based practices and procedures, and maintaining enthusiasm for followers who may become fatigued with tasks
What is an electronic database used as a tool for providers to see prescribing histories to assist in making opioid prescriptions?
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs)
What is a sustainable career
A vocation that is aligned with interests, strengths, and values, and offers ongoing learning and renewal
Which route is preferred for mild pian medication
Oral and topical
Heroin dependency is estimated to cost the US $21 billion each year. Productivity losses account for 52.6% of that cost. This factor accounts for 23.9%.
What is crime?
What are the traits of nursing management?
Attending to short-term goals
Maximizing results from existing resources
Organizing and coordinating resources such as supplies and staff
What technological advancement has allowed for providers to have PDMPs directly on their phones?
The unique stressor for nurses when helping patients with opioid pain medications
Nurses have the knowledge and are aware of the struggles that patients are going through with opioid use disorder or the harmful side of pharmacological pain management methods.
Advantages of Evidence-based practice (EBP)
Improves patient outcomes through superior care
Maximizes providers' time and reduces costs
Adds new contributions to the science of nursing
This medication is used as a treatment in opioid dependency. It is cited as resulting in $5,915 life-year gained.
What is methadone?
How can nurse managers assist those in the nurse follower role?
Assess the knowledge of nurse followers on the unit
Promote various pain management options
Maintain the skills and competency involved for nurse followers
How does iPrescribe help both the patient and the provider?
Ability to promptly provide an opioid prescription
Monitor for simultaneous orders
Provides transparency for any non-adherence
What are nursing resources
people, money, skillsets, time, equipment, opportunities for education and career development, autonomy and involvement
Give an example of unsafe non-pharmacological pain control practice
Using ice packs for pain from sickle cell anemia
These individuals are usually the first to respond to an opioid overdose crisis.
Who are police officers?
How can nurse leaders advocate against the stigma that exists in healthcare today regarding the opioid epidemic?
Promote trainings that will provide nurses and providers with the skills to raise awareness surrounding beliefs and behaviors that contribute to the stigma
What resources are available to nurses to continue in their education on how to help reduce the incidence of opioid misuse in communities?
The CDC Overdose Prevention Guide
The Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit
The Drug Policy Alliance
Attractive nursing practice environment should include
Strong leadership,
Quality assurance,
Collaboration and equality,
Opportunities for career advancement,
Nurse participation in decision-making.
Three steps in using pharmaceutical pain medications
Use in addition to non-pharmacological, emotional and social treatment
Consider scheduled regular treatment of increasing medication strength
Consider changing method of delivery
In the evaluation of office-based methadone, clinic-based methadone, and office-based buprenorphine, this treatment used in opioid dependency is the least expensive option.
What is clinic-based methadone?