Safe Opioid Prescribing for Nurse Practitioners

In a recent survey, 400 Nurse Practitioners (NP) 50% indicated that their education did not adequately prepare them to treat patients with chronic pain. These nurse practitioners indicated that they often feel ill-equipped to prescribe opioids to patients. As suggested by the aforementioned statist [...]
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In a recent survey, 400 Nurse Practitioners (NP) 50% indicated that their education did not adequately prepare them to treat patients with chronic pain. These nurse practitioners indicated that they often feel ill-equipped to prescribe opioids to patients. As suggested by the aforementioned statistic, fear of regulatory oversight and fear of potential addiction in patients often prevents nurse practitioners from prescribing opioids to those patients who could benefit from them. Although addiction is a real concern for practitioners prescribing opioids (the rate of addiction in primary care patients on long-term opioids ranges from