Course Objectives for
Analgesics

When you complete this course, you will take a written or online test that measures your ability to identify:

1. Patient responses to pain and pain treatment.

2. Different types of pain treatment and when they should be initiated.

3. Types of nonopioid drugs and their characteristics and appropriate uses.

4. Adverse side effects of nonopioid drugs and ways to minimize them.

5. Types of opioid drugs and their characteristics and appropirate uses.

6. Adverse side effects of opioid drugs and ways to minimize them.