Identifying barriers and facilitators for nurse practitioners’ opioid management of chronic pain.

Source: J Am Assoc Nurse Pract 2023 Jan 01; 35(1). doi: 10.1097/JXX.0000000000000805Authors: Kim H S, Korzynski A, Hershberger PE, Durham ML

Drug overdose deaths greatly increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 100,306 cases occurring in the United States over 12 months from 2020 to 2021, an increase of 28.5% from the year before. Three quarters of these deaths involved opioids, and this epidemic has seriously complicated chronic pain management. The role of nurse practitioners (NPs) in opioid prescription has expanded since Affordable Care Act passage in 2010, but their prescription of opioids for chronic pain management is not well understood.

Pubmed ID: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36602474?dopt=Abstract