Substance Use Disorder in Long Term Care8/20/20262pm3:30pm
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SESSION 1: Substance Use Disorder in Long-Term Care
Recognizing the Disease, Supporting Staff, Protecting Residents
Thursday, August 20, 2-3:30 pm
This program has been approved for Continuing Education for 1.5 total participant hours by NAB/NCERS—Approval #20270819-1.50-A124142-DL and the Delaware Board of Nursing
Description:
This is session one of a two-part Delaware long-term care series on substance use, drug diversion, and the regulatory duties that come with both. Session one covers substance use disorder as a medical condition. It walks nurses and administrators through what the research actually shows about risk in long-term care nursing specifically, what Delaware’s Board of Nursing regulation requires when a colleague may be impaired, and how to keep resident care accurate and person-centered when a resident’s own history includes substance use or a complex chronic pain picture. Every statute, statistic, and regulatory citation in this session is grounded in Delaware law and current, sourced data, not generic national content.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this session, the participant will be able to:
- Define substance use, misuse, and substance use disorder in plain, defensible terms
- Describe the documented risk factors that make nursing, and long-term care nursing specifically, a higher-exposure profession
- Recognize behavioral and practice-based signs of possible impairment in a colleague
- Apply Delaware’s mandatory reporting duties for nurses under the Board of Nursing’s practice standards
- Respond to a resident’s pre-existing substance use disorder without compromising person-centered, dignified care