The Opioid Crisis: Family and Caregiver Risk Assessment Factors

& How to Respond to Them

Wednesday, June 27, 2018
(10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Central)

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The disease of addiction can impact those who are caring for their loved ones in pain.   No one wants to think their parents, family members, caregivers, or friends would take medications from those who are suffering in pain especially at the end of life. Unfortunately in the world we live in today, this is happening.   This session will share stories of struggles while providing pain management, palliative and end of life care. 

The presentation will share a pediatric institution’s quality improvement project on Opioid Risk Screen for Abuse in a pediatric chronic pain clinic and a homebased palliative care and hospice setting.  The experts will discuss:

• Opioid misuse issue statistics in the US and Ohio.

• Risk factors for opioid misuse in caregivers and how this can impact pain management patients in pain and at the end of life.

• Implementation of a quality improvement project conducted in a pediatric chronic pain clinic and homebased palliative care and hospice setting.

Presenters: Sharon Wrona, DNP, RN-BC, PNP, PMHS, AP-PMN.  Dr. Wrona is the Administrative Director for the Comprehensive Pain and Palliative Care Services at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.  She has been a pediatric nurse for 30 years and has spent the last 16 years working in pediatric pain management as a nurse practitioner.  Sharon completed her DNP at The Ohio State University as well as her Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner.  With Dr. Wrona’s background in working with children and adolescents she has developed a passion on safe pain management from both a prescribers and nurses prospective. 

Lisa Humphrey, MD, Hospice Medical Director and Director of Palliative Care at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Dr. Humphrey received her bachelor's degree from Columbia University, New York, New York, and her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. She completed her pediatric residency and a fellowship in pediatric hospice and palliative medicine at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Registration Fee:  Member rate is $159.00 - Non-members $259.00