Why this course is for you
This course will discuss acute and chronic pain, assessment tools, common pain disorders, interventional pain management modalities and treatments.
At the completion of this course the participant will be able to
- Describe the concept of pain
- List the causes of pain
- Differentiate between the types of pain
- Discuss the signs of pain
- Describe how to assess pain and follow up after intervention
- Define pain control methods
- Discuss pain relief in the older adult
- Differentiate between tolerance, threshold, dependency and addiction
- Discuss interventional pain management treatment modalities
- Define common pain disorders
