Target Audience(s): Physicians, Nurse Practitioners or other Advanced Practice Nurses, PAs, Pharmacists, Interprofessional Teams, Students, and Educators
Description: Medical complications are common among patients who inject drugs. Signs and symptoms of acute or chronic infectious diseases often prompt patients to seek medical care. The time of presentation for complications related to injection drug use presents an opportunity to screen and employ early intervention strategies and engage individuals in addiction treatment. This course reviews features of skin and soft tissue infections among people who inject drugs, reviews risk factors for Hepatitis C (HCV) and HIV, describes prevention interventions for HCV and HIV, and discusses treatment approaches for HCV and HIV in patients with opioid use disorder.
Educational Objectives:
- Recognize exposure and risk factors for acute and chronic injection-related infections.
- Define epidemiologic trends of injection drug use related infective endocarditis (IDU-IE) in the US.
- Propose treatment and prevention opportunities for healthcare teams to address Hepatitis C (HCV) and HIV in patients with substance use disorder.
Supplemental SUD 101 Core Curriculum Course
This course is a supplemental offering within the SUD 101 Core Curriculum. These virtual presentations include knowledge checks and reflection questions. For more information about the SUD 101 Core Curriculum, please visit the SUD 101 homepage.
Course components:
- Interactive learning: 30-to-60-minute virtual presentation, with knowledge checks and reflection questions.
- Resources: Downloadable slide decks, resource links, references, and mentorship opportunities.
- Team-based takeaway guide: This tool provides important course takeaways from and for specific members of the team. It was designed to help the team learn from and about one another.
- Accredited CE credits: A certificate following completion of the course
- Choice of available CE Credit types: AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, AAPA Category 1 CME, Nursing Contact Hours, Pharmacy CE Credit, Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) Credit.
Completion:
- CE certificates: After completing each course, learners will receive a CE certificate.