SAMSHA: Implementing Best Practices for Co-Dispensing Naloxone in Practice Home Study(2022)

Should you attend?  This is a application base educational program activity for Pharmacists.

Activity Description: The opioid crisis is epidemic.  Naloxone ws first recognized as an opioid agtagonist in the 1960s. In 1971, the FDA approved it for treating opiate overdoses by IV or IM injection.  Pharmacists in all settings should be familiar with the incidence of overdoses, and the implementation of best practices related to the use of naloxone.  This continuing edication activity is provided with Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine.  

Upon completion of the educational program, pharmacists will be able to:

* Demonstrate the importance of co-dispensing naloxone for patients with chronic pain and substance use disorders (SUD) in our current healthcare landscape.
* Examine legal considerations for co-dispensing and co-prescribing naloxone in New Jersey along with national, state, and organizational recommendations.
* Implement a naloxone co-dispensing program across various settings when approved by administration.
* Interpret the strategies and barriers to implementing a successful naloxone co-dispensing program in your practice.
* Use various processes for mitigating stigma reduction in naloxone co-dispensing initiatives.
* Identify the process of using implementation science to establish a framework for a successful naloxone co-dispensing program.

2 contact hour/0.2 CEUs

UAN: 0136-9999-21-029-H08-P

Delivered by Richard Jermyn, DO, Director of NeuroMusculoskeletal Institute, Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine, Glassboro, NJ

The instructions to register, create an account an acess the program content, tests and evaluations are lengthy.  Please read the following information in its entirety.  it is a three step process requiring registrations and account creation (NJPhA, Rowan Marketplace, Rowan Canvas CE system).

NJPhA is pleased to be working jointly with Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine to provide a two-hour virtual naloxone training program for pharmacists.  Pharmacists (in-state or out-of-state) licensed in New Jersey may receive 0.2 CEUs for successful completion of all course components.

Registration and Course Access:  The course is offered free of charge.  It is a two-step registration process.  Please click this link to register for the course through NJPhA.  A registration confirmation email will be issued automatically, and it will contain the access link to the Rowan Continuing Education Online Marketplace and the CANVAS Learning Management System.  This is a Rowan requirement to properly track your participation in the continuing education webinar.    Please look for it, and check spam/junk folders.  You will not be able to access the course material without the link.

Upon receipt of the confirmation email, you will have access to the Rowan Marketplace, and you will need to create a free account (email and password needed).  Click the program title in blue above the SAMHSA logo.  You will see three choices.  Click the 'Implementing Best Practices for Co-Dispensing Naloxone in Your Practice' title.  Scroll down and add it to your cart.  Select  'Go to Cart' within one hoour of registration or you will need to login again.  Be sure to enter ‘1’ in the quantity field.  The price will be $0.00. Follow prompts to check out and next stps/continue.  Click Account in top tool bar and then select 'registrations' .  The course should be displayed--click ENROLL. then 'Enroll me in Canva's (that's the LMS that houses the content). Your dashboard will appear and you can begin the course!.

After you access to the content on the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS) managed by Rowan.  Your progress, and completion of the program is tracked and verified in  the LMS. The course requires that learners access every module in succession before they can proceed to the next module.  For example, you must view the presenter biography before you will be directed to the pre-assessment.  One cannot skip ahead.  It is a timed presentation requiring item by item in sequence.   

Once all modules have been completed successfully, you will have an option to create and print a certificate of completion.  The certificate is not an award of credit.  Credit will be provided to learners that the learning management system verifies have completed all components successfully.

Continuing Education Credit:

Credit is awarded after successful completion of the required course components, passing test scores, and submitting evaluations.  Providing your NABP number AND MMDD of birth during registration is required to upload credit to CPE Monitor, which is done within 60 days of verification of successful course completion. Credit will not be issued for course completion without the NABP and MMDD information.  CPE Monitor weill reject those entries.  Please do not omit it.

Please review the additional accreditation information provided at the beginning of the course modules.