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Nancy Guinn, MD

Nancy Guinn, MD is the former medical director of Presbyterian Home Healthcare in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This group has created innovative programs in home-based care for patients coping with serious illness: Palliative Care in the Community and Inpatient Setting and Hospital at Home. She is board certified in family medicine as well as hospice and palliative care. She attended medical school and completed her residency in family and community medicine at the University of New Mexico. She completed a fellowship in palliative and hospice medicine at Stanford Medical Center. Dr. Guinn has worked as a primary care doctor in a community health center and as a solo practitioner. She is a founding member of Ideal Medical Practices, a national non-profit group focused on quality care. She is also a past president of the New Mexico chapter of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

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Courses

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Course 1: Pain and its Impact on Our Patients

Course 1 of 10

Learn to define and characterize pain, recognize the prevalence of pain, understand disparities in pain management based on race, ethnicity, and gender.

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Course 2: How to Perform a Comprehensive Pain Assessment

Course 2 of 10

Learn the components of a comprehensive pain assessment and its importance in safe and effective pain management.

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Course 3: Matching Treatment to Pain Type

Course 3 of 10

Gain an overview of pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic pain treatments, including risks and benefits, and learn how to match the analgesic to pain type.

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Course 4: Prescribing an Opioid

Course 4 of 10

Learn how to decide on an appropriate opioid, route of delivery, and dose, and understand how to prescribe for incident and breakthrough pain.

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Course 5: Practice Prescribing an Opioid

Course 5 of 10

Practice prescribing initial opioid doses for different pain types and characteristics. Learn to adjust dosing as needed to manage pain effectively.

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Course 6: Creating a Pain Treatment Plan and Monitoring Effectiveness

Course 6 of 10

Learn to develop a pain treatment plan with realistic goals and proper documentation, and implement universal precautions to help with the risk of opioid use disorder.

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Course 7: Advanced Opioid Prescribing: Converting to Long-Acting Opioids

Course 7 of 10

Learn how to convert from short-acting to long-acting opioids, and calculate rescue doses for breakthrough pain using updated equianalgesic tools.

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Course 8: Problems with Opioid Prescribing: Is it an Opioid Use Disorder?

Course 8 of 10

Learn how to identify and diagnose opioid use disorder (OUD) and practice communicating with patients about OUD and pain management.

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Course 9: Using Buprenorphine for Chronic Pain and Opioid Use Disorder

Course 9 of 10

Determine which patients may benefit from buprenorphine as a treatment for pain and opioid use disorder (OUD), and learn how to transition patients to buprenorphine.

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Course 10: Managing IV Opioids

Course 10 of 10

Learn how to convert patients back and forth from oral to IV opioid formulations, how to prescribe patient-controlled analgesia (PCA), and how to treat acute pain crises.

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