
Assessing and Managing Pain for COVID Patients

Activity Length: 28 minutes
Test Time: 6 minutes
Target Audience
Learning Objectives
- Discuss how to assess and manage pain in COVID-19-infected patients across healthcare settings;
- Describe how to develop toolkits of resources to promote wellbeing in patients with chronic pain during the pandemic;
- List strategies to promote communication with patients and families with chronic pain during the pandemic.
Commercial Support: This CME-certified activity has not requested or received any support or funding from commercial interests. This includes, but is not limited to, pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers.

This work is conducted by the Illinois Area Health Education Centers Network Program, funded by grant No.U77HP26847 from the Health Resources and Services Administration, and administered by the National Center for Rural Health Professions at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine - Rockford.
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.50 Nursing Contact Hours
- 0.50 Participation
FACULTY

Director, Section of Palliative Medicine
Rush University Medical Center
PUBLICATIONS
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone who is in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest. This includes any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by or used on patients. The ACCME defines “relevant financial relationships” as financial relationships in any amount occurring within the past 12 months, including financial relationships of a spouse or life partner that could create a conflict of interest. Mechanisms are in place to identify and resolve any potential conflict of interest prior to the start of the activity.
Additionally, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration, at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
Aliza Baron, AM owns stock in Eli Lilly. No one else in a position to control the educational content of this activity has any other relevant financial relationships to disclose.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Nursing Credit
University of Chicago Medicine is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Ohio Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. (OBN-001-91)
This enduring activity is designated for a maximum of 0.50 continuing nursing education units.
Social Worker Credit
University of Chicago Medicine is a Registered Social Work Continuing Education Sponsor through the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and will offer continuing education units for the Assessing and Managing Pain for COVID Patients for LSW and LCSW social workers in the state of Illinois.
0.50 social work continuing education units are provided for this enduring activity.
Other Healthcare Professional Credit
DISCLAIMER The information presented in this activity is for continuing medical education purposes only. The opinions expressed in this educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, the University of Chicago Medicine, or the Department/Section.