Webinar: Integrating non-pharmacologic & pharmacologic pain planning (NPPP) in primary care

Dr. Nichols will present to Health care professionals (Physicians, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, RN, Social Workers, Pharmacist, and other members of the health care team) that manage pain how to expand options to offer people with all levels of pain but specifically chronic pain, acute on chronic pain, people with chronic opioid use and opioid use disorder. Dr. Nichols led an interprofessional team (Physicians, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, RN, Social Workers, Pharmacist and Medical Assistant) and the people they cared for in creating Comfort Bundles© by starting the conversation focused on Understanding pain and planning for comfort© to create a pain plan of medicine and non-medicine treatment options. Learning Objectives • Describe the nonpharmacologic protocol • Apply the protocol to a patient to determine “Comfort Bundles© (Pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatment combinations) • Create a plan of care balancing pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic