COE Learning Network: Pre and Postnatal Care for Individuals with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)

June 28, 2023

The COE healthcare team will learn about ways to help mothers and babies in the pre and post partum period and how medication assisted treatment is utilized, stigma education and harm reduction to support the mother-baby dyad.

Agenda: 

  1. Welcome, introductions, training objectives 
  1. Overview of opioid use disorder (OUD)
  2. Describing the role of the provider
  3. Person first language
  4. Medication for OUD (MOUD)
    1. Effectiveness of MOUD
    2. MOUD in Pregnancy
  5. Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) and Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOWS)
    1. Tools for addressing NAS and NOW
  6. Parental Partnership Unit (PPU)
    1. PPU data
  7. Recommendations for discharge
  8. Harm reduction
    1. Naloxone
  9. Discussion 
  1. Questions 

 

Target Audience

Nurse

Physician

Social Worker

Learning Objectives

• Describe the gold standard recommendations for treatment of opiate use disorder (OUD) in the perinatal period
• Discuss the effects of MOUD on the mother-baby dyad throughout the perinatal period
• Describe ways to interact with patients and their support persons in a way that is non-stigmatizing and empowering of their recovery
• Recognize and practice principles of harm reduction, including universal distribution of Narcan with the understanding of how to administer it when necessary

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.25 ASWB
  • 1.25 Attendance
Course opens: 
06/28/2023
Course expires: 
09/30/2023
Event starts: 
06/28/2023 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
06/28/2023 - 1:30pm EDT

The COE healthcare team will learn about ways to help mothers and babies in the pre and post partum period and how medication assisted treatment is utilized, stigma education and harm reduction to support the mother-baby dyad.

Agenda: 

  1. Welcome, introductions, training objectives 
  1. Overview of opioid use disorder (OUD)
  2. Describing the role of the provider
  3. Person first language
  4. Medication for OUD (MOUD)
    1. Effectiveness of MOUD
    2. MOUD in Pregnancy
  5. Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) and Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOWS)
    1. Tools for addressing NAS and NOW
  6. Parental Partnership Unit (PPU)
    1. PPU data
  7. Recommendations for discharge
  8. Harm reduction
    1. Naloxone
  9. Discussion 
  1. Questions 
Zoom Meeting
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Cambria King

Corey Davis

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and The Jewish Healthcare Foundation. The University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 continuing education credits.

Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.

Social Work (ASWB)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Social Work Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.25 ASWB
  • 1.25 Attendance
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