A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals
September 9, 2020
3:00 pm–4:30 pm ET
This 1.5 hour session will be a case-based discussion regarding the discharge process for patients from a hospital setting and transitioning them to an OTP setting.
Via Zoom
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This 1.5 hour session will be a case-based discussion regarding the discharge process for patients from a hospital setting and transitioning them to an OTP setting. Effective strategies in order to retain these patients on Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) will be discussed.
This training will be held via Zoom. We would prefer that you log in using a computer with a web cam so that we can all connect to each other via video. Please note that signing on with video is required to receive CEs. If you do not have access to a web cam, please let us know.
OTP and OBAT staff providing treatment for substance use disorders
Explain assessments, treatment initiation and discharge planning for patients with substance use disorder in a hospital setting.
Discuss recommendations for warm hand-offs and other strategies for transitions from the inpatient setting to the OTP setting.
Bureau of Substance Addiction Services
Boston Medical Center grants 1.50 hours to all nurses who attend, complete the evaluation, and complete the post test. Boston Medical Center is approved as a provider of continuing professional development by American Nurses Association, Massachusetts, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Boston University School of Social Work which is authorized through the MA state board of Social Work to provide 1.50 CE Credit Hours.