Enhancing Provider Skills in Serving People Who Actively Use Substances

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Health care providers have opportunities to engage and support clients who use drugs in setting and attaining health related goals. This session will engage attendees in collaborative learning, conversation, and case discussion to identify opportunities to engage clients in setting goals.

This one-hour webinar will focus on provider acceptance of ‘where a person is at’ as a precursor to supporting client driven goal setting. Cases shared within this session will highlight exemplars of engaged approaches as well as opportunities for improvement.

Evidence related to harm reduction approaches and goal setting will be discussed and harm reduction best practices, evidence, and current local and national resources will be provided.

Participants will consider how goal attainment can be supported with syringe service programs, overdose prevention and treatment, medications prescribed to mitigate withdrawal symptoms, and referrals across health care and community services including peer recovery supports.

Learning Objectives

After this session, participants will be able to:

• Relate the concepts of humility and curiosity to learn about substance use disorders as precursors to have supportive and pragmatic conversations with clients
• Identify opportunities in varied practice settings to engage clients who use drugs in setting and achieving goals
• Conduct collaborative goal setting for overdose and infection prevention with people who use drugs to augment substance disorder screening, treatment, referral, and recovery
• Apply harm reduction principles to supporting patient experience drug withdrawal symptoms

Learning Outcome

Participants will report a change in practice 6 months after the educational intervention

Target Audience

All members of the practice team including physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, medical assistants and patient service representatives.

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Continuing Education

Southern NH AHEC is an Approved Provider of continuing nursing education by the Northeast Multistate Division (NE-MSD), an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

1.0 contact hours Activity Number: 1250

Physicians

The Southern NH Area Health Education Center is accredited by the NH Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Southern New Hampshire Area Health Education Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA category 1 Credit (s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other professionals

1.0 professional hours of continuing education.