Wednesday, April 24, 2024
4/24/2024
The UNM-PCSS NP & Expansion (UNM-PCSS NP/E) will allow the University of New Mexico (UNM) Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences to develop a comprehensive training program on Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) for Opioid Use Disorders (OUD) that will be embedded in the curricula for all nurse practitioner students and residents in adolescent medicine. This is an expansion of the successful PCSS program at UNM for Medical, Physician Assistant (PA), and Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner students (PNP). The UNM-PCSS NP/E initiative will include classroom instruction on DATA waiver training and clinical shadowing experiences. Specifically, the goals of the UNM-PCSS NP/E are to: (1) Improve the capacity of UNM health profession students to treat OUD with MAT during their professional careers, with emphasis on nursing students and adolescent medicine residents; (2) Standardize DATA waiver training as part of UNM Nurse Practitioner student programs and adolescent medicine residency; (3) Ensure students and residents have the opportunity to meet the requirements to apply for Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) waiver by time of graduation; (4) Ensure long term sustainability of the training in the educational curricula. These goals will be accomplished by the implementation of comprehensive MAT training approved by the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP) and tailored shadowing experiences. The UNM-PCSS NP/E initiative will develop and schedule opportunities for clinical practice teaching (shadowing), which will allow students to directly observe clinicians providing MAT for patients with OUD. The funding also supports development and distribution of marketing materials that explain the importance of DATA waiver training and normalize treatment of OUD with MAT as a standard component of healthcare, with materials focusing on the role of Nurse Practitioners (NP) and adolescent medicine physicians in addressing the OUD crisis. The UNM-PCSS NP/E initiative will annually train 95 learners. By the end of grant year 3, at least 285 learners will have received the 8-hour classroom DATA Waiver training and the clinical observation experience.
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