NR565 Week 2: State Specific Guidelines for Prescribing Controlled Substances & Medical Devices

 
 State of Planned NP Clinical Practice: Illinois Complete the following table with information specific to the state where you plan to practice as a nurse practitioner. Please refer to the rubric in the course to identify how much each prompt is worth. Most are worth 5 or 6 points with one question being worth 10 points. The 10 point question is noted in the table. ?Sources should be obtained directly from the state's regulatory organization(s) and must be cited appropriately. ?It is recommended that you keep a copy of this paper to provide to potential employers or your Board of Nursing in order to demonstrate your knowledge of your state laws. Guidelines and recommendations for your state: In response to the opioid epidemic, individual states have developed and adopted voluntary guidelines or recommendations for the treatment of acute and chronic non-cancer pain. Based on research done on the state where you will practice clinically, include the following: Provide the name of your practicing state's organization, group or task force that created guidelines or recommendations for pain management therapies and education.Organization, group, or task forcename Illinois Crisis Response Advisory Council developed the Opioid Action Plan with the aid of the Illinois Department of Public Health Where you found this information (weblink): https://www.dhs.state.il.us/OneNetLibrary/27896/ documents/ CommitteeRecommendationsGoalandMetricsJanuary122018 .pdf Briefly describe an overview of itsdevelopment and include a web address where this information can be found. If your state does not have guidelines, discuss a federal guideline. (Note: you mayneed to contact your state's board of nursing, pharmacy, or medicine if you cannot locate it on your own).Overview of your state's guideline development with web address. Illinois created the states opioid action plan (SOAP) September 6, 2017. This was created in order to address the opioid epidemic that was occurring in Illinois. The plan or thought was to help reduce the opioid related deaths by 33% by 2020. Goals where established such Locate federal guidelines and provide a link to federal guidelines you could use in practice as a NP https://www.hhs.gov/opioids/prevention/pain- management-options/index.html The US Department of Health and Human Services established the pain management best practice inter- agency task force. They also have the responsibility with the veterans administration and Department of Defense to identify gaps and inconsistencies with pain