Leveraging APRNs to Combat the Opioid Epidemic: An Overview and Recent Findings
Webinar Details & Objectives
This presentation will provide an overview of the opioid epidemic and pharmacological interventions for opioid use disorder treatment. The role of advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) in combating the opioid epidemic will be discussed, with special focus on recent expansion of buprenorphine prescriptive authority to APRNs. Recent findings regarding barriers to and facilitators of buprenorphine prescribing will be highlighted.
This webinar focuses on topics surrounding the successful completion of the 2018 AACN/NIDA Mentored-Facilitated Award for substance use disorders science dissemination.
Objectives
- Describe treatment for opioid use disorder
- Discuss barriers to the provision of treatment for opioid use disorder
- Detail advanced practice registered nursing implications for the treatment of opioid use disorder
Speakers
Brayden N. Kameg, DNPAssistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh
Brayden Kameg is an assistant professor of nursing at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP-BC), and a certified addictions registered nurse (CARN). Primarily, her research and clinical interests include substance use disorders and addiction, with focused interest in screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT), fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, and opioid use management. She also has expertise in adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and their association with adult substance use disorders, and recently evaluated rates of ACEs and substance use disorders in a sample of nearly 700 undergraduate and graduate nursing students.
She was awarded funding through the AACN and National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Mentored Training Program to develop and disseminate training materials regarding opioid use management. She worked with various professional nursing organizations to broadly disseminate these training materials, which included a three-webinar series, and then sought feedback in regards to barriers to and facilitators of opioid use management in clinical practice, particularly buprenorphine prescribing.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to deans, faculty, staff, and students from AACN member schools of nursing. All non-member audiences will be required to pay a $59 webinar fee.
Continuing Education Credits
Eligible attendees may receive one continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hour for participating in this webinar. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is an accredited CNE-provider by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.