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The Clinical Pain Management (CPM) Program

Award 3. Core Pain Self-Management Skills

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CPM10. Setting Goals 2 Sections
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AWARD 3: Pain Self-Management Skills Guides healthcare professionals through ways in which they can develop their clinical skills in teaching a person in pain how they can identify personally relevant treatment goals, pace their daily activities and exercise programs, apply relaxation methods for reducing stress and tension, and effective problem-management strategies.

Award 3

Core Pain Self-Management Skills

Enhance your knowledge and skills in recognising, assessing, and treating individuals experiencing pain, in these 5 easy-to-use modules

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  • Duration: 6 CPD Hours
  • Certificate: Certificate of Completion
  • Cost: AUD $280 (includes all 4 awards)

By the end of AWARD 3, you will be able to:

  1. Engage a person seeking help with their pain in identifying their desired functional goals.
  2. Explain to a person seeking help with their pain how they could use an activity pacing approach to achieving their functional goals.
  3. Introduce three types of exercise to a person in pain and a home-based exercise plan.
  4. Teach a person seeking help with their pain how they can use a relaxation technique in managing their pain.

Establish a structured approach to problem management with a person in pain.

CPM 10: Setting Goals

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

  1. Describe the importance of having functional goals to aim at in pain self-management
  2. Initiate the steps involved in setting specific and meaningful goals with the person in pain
  3. Guide the person in pain in charting their goals in operational terms
  4. Explore, with the person in pain, potential obstacles the person in pain may face in attempting to achieve their goals
  5. Anticipate the roles other pain self-management skills can play in achieving goals

 

CPM 11: Activity Pacing and Exercise

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

  1. Introduce activity pacing to a person in pain and its role in achieving functional goals.
  2. Engage a person in pain in planning and applying activity pacing for activities limited by pain.
  3. Demonstrate a basic exercise program to a person in pain
  4. Implement an activity pacing approach to a structured activity and exercise program with a person in pain.

 

CPM 12: Relaxation

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

  1. Prepare a person in pain to practice applied relaxation methods as a pain self-management strategy
  2. Rehearse applied relaxation methods with a person in pain as a pain self-management method.
  3. Encourage a person in pain to maintain their practice of applied relaxation in their daily lives.

 

CPM 13: Problem Management

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

  1. Examine, with a person in pain, how they might respond to obstacles they face in implementing and maintaining their pain management plans
  2. Contrast helpful and unhelpful ways of managing obstacles to successful pain self-management.
  3. Encourage a person in pain to experiment with their chosen problem-management strategies between appointments.
  4. Reflect on the person in pain’s experiences with their chosen problem-management strategies.

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BY COMPLETING ALL 4 AWARDS

Award 1

Essential Pain Management

5 CPD HOURS

Enhance your knowledge and skills in recognising, assessing, and treating individuals experiencing pain, in these 5 easy-to-use modules.
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Award 2

Preparing For Pain Self-Management

6 CPD HOURS

Focus is on equipping you with the skills to guide patients through the crucial steps toward personalising their plan and managing their own pain.
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Award 4

Safe And Effective Use Of Medication

3 CPD HOURS

Learn to describe the place of analgesic medications in the integrated management of people experiencing acute and chronic pain, including the safety and efficacy of opioids, reduce reliance and minimise harms.
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Award 1

Essential Pain Management

5 CPD HOURS

Enhance your knowledge and skills in recognising, assessing, and treating individuals experiencing pain, in these 5 easy-to-use modules.
Learn More
ENROL NOW

Award 2

Preparing For Pain Self-Management

6 CPD HOURS

Focus is on equipping you with the skills to guide patients through the crucial steps toward personalising their plan and managing their own pain.
Learn More
ENROL NOW

Award 4

Safe And Effective Use Of Medication

3 CPD HOURS

Learn to describe the place of analgesic medications in the integrated management of people experiencing acute and chronic pain, including the safety and efficacy of opioids, reduce reliance and minimise harms.
Learn More
ENROL NOW

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