Implementing a practice-wide approach to opioid management
Webinar 30 May, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM (AEST)
Presented by Margaret Jordan, a General Practice Pharmacist based in NSW, and GP Dr Adele Stewart, this GP-friendly webinar will step through a case study to explore how a general practice-wide approach can assist in the review of patients prescribed opioids. They will share their experience of:
- The development and importance of a practice policy
- The development and provision of personalised patient resources
- The pros of therapeutic ‘agreements’, and how they can be used to promote conversations
- How to engage patients in shared decision-making
- The importance of collaborating with the broader team and healthcare community of medical specialists and pharmacists and other relevant members
- Having difficult conversations
Learning outcomes
- Introduce elements of a practice-wide approach to opioid management
- Implement strategies to initiate conversations with patients prescribed long-term opioids to enable opioid review
Educational Activities
1.0
hours
Presenters
Dr Adele Stewart
Chair, RACGP Specific Interests Pain Management and Accredited Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Teacher
Dr Adele Stewart MBBS FRACGP has been a GP for 30 years. Adele has gained Recognition of Extended Skills in Psychological Medicine for Fellows of the RACGP and practices in a trauma sensitive framework. Adele is also a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Teacher and has a special interest in mindfulness-based interventions, complex trauma and the psychological aspects of chronic pain, particularly chronic pelvic pain.
Margaret Jordan
BPharm, PhD, MSc(Res), Advanced Practice Pharmacist, FSHP, FANZCAP (MedsMgmt, PrimCare), AcSHP
Margaret Jordan is a GP pharmacist and Research Fellow at University of Wollongong. Margaret’s practice has included hospital, general practice, academia, and in developing and delivering programs for NPS. She has had consultant roles with the TGA and the NSW Clinical Excellence Commission. Her more recent hospital experience has been in improving the management of high-risk medicines such as opioids and anticoagulants, especially across transitions of care. Margaret’s current focus is medicines optimisation for patients at-risk of harm in general practice, and with the general practice team at Woonona Medical Practice, has implemented sustained opioid and benzodiazepine stewardship.