Prescribing Controlled Substances Course-CME-CNE

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Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 8:00 AM - Friday, April 16, 2021, 4:30 PM, Live Stream, Nashville, TN


Specialties - Anesthesiology, Cardiac Surgery, Dermatology, Emergency Medicine, Medicine, Neurological Surgery, Neurology, Nursing, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, Otolaryngology, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Pediatric Surgery, Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Pharmacy, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Plastic Surgery, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Radiation Oncology, Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Section of Surgical Sciences, Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, Urology


AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (23.75 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (23.75 hours), ANCC - American Nurses Credentialing Center (23.75 hours)


This three-day course will be offered six times in 2020 (February 5-7, 2020, April 15-17, 2020, June 10-12, 2020, August 19-21, 2020, October 21-23, 2020, and November 18-20, 2020) in conference room 1107 in Oxford House at VUMC. The course is designed to help clinicians who have had problems associated with prescribing controlled substances improve their prescribing practices. After participating in Prescribing Controlled Substances, you should be able to describe and discuss current information on proper prescribing practices of controlled substances, how to recognize risky prescribing of controlled substances, strategies to avoid inappropriate prescribing behaviors, strategies for managing the drug-seeking patient, an approach to managing chemical dependency using SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral for Treatment), and how to access your state’s prescription drug monitoring program.


ACCME Objectives
  1. current information on proper prescribing practices of controlled substance
  2. how to recognize risky prescribing of controlled substances
  3. strategies to avoid inappropriate prescribing behaviors
  4. strategies for managing the drug-seeking patient
  5. an approach to managing chemical dependency using SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral for Treatment)
  6. how to access your state’s prescription drug monitoring program

ANCC Learning Outcomes
  1. report increased knowledge regarding prescribing practices for controlled substances as demonstrated by course evaluation results.


If you are looking for the Center For Professional Health CME courses, please email katharine.e.urmy@vumc.org.


Vanderbilt University Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum 23.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nursing Education and Professional Development, is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Nursing Education and Professional Development, designates this activity for a maximum of 23.75 Contact Hours. 



Successful Nursing Contact Hour Requirements:
 • Attendance at entire event
 • Text in attendance within 72 hours of the start of the event
 • Completion of the evaluation

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