3B New Strategies in Opioid Stewardship

This program was designed to address the prevalent issues related to opioid use in the hospital. The idea was to introduce and reinforce an opioid stewardship program. The program has been running since 7/26/17. Pharmacists and APRN met once a week to build the program and work out the components of the program, technologically and logistically. The pharmacists review obtained computer generated reports to screen for potential problems with opioid therapy. The health care providers continue to provide high level stewardship tracking, comprehensive medication review, and then provide reccomendations (to possible change bowel meds, lab monitoring, chemical dependency, psychiatry, psychology, acupuncture, massage, anesthesia, ortho, neuro, or palliative care involvement).
Source: Pain Management Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Source Type: research