Description
September 24, 2024 (rescheduled) | 12:00-1:00pm
Description:
This training is to provide education and integration techniques for best practice regarding Xylazine response. Xylazine remains a vast unknown to many providers, particularly as it continues to show up more regularly in medical facilities and in the local drug supply. This training is appropriate for: medical personnel, community mental health workers, outreach workers, and anyone engaged in treatment with Xylazine-affected individuals.
Learning Objectives:
– Understanding and discussing Xylazine and effects/implications of it is in the drug supply, as well as the history of Xylazine
– Respond to overdose in Xylazine-affected individuals,
– Understand basic wound care response, as well as appropriateness to referral for more advance care
Presenter:
Anna McConnell, FNP-BC: Anna McConnell (she/her) is the Interim Executive Director and Co-founder of Maine Access Points, a state-wide harm reduction organization that provides overdose education and naloxone distribution, syringe access services, and drug user health services. Anna graduated from the University of Southern Maine with a MS in Nursing as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Prior to attending nursing school in Maine, Anna worked in San Francisco at GLIDE Foundation providing harm reduction services in the Tenderloin.
Maggie Zall, CADC: Maggie Zall, CADC (she/her) is the Director of Southern Maine Harm Reduction Services with Maine Access Points. She is a current MSW student, with an undergraduate degree in Interdisciplinary Studies, studying the intersections of mental health, advocacy, and cultural studies. She is a long term harm reductionist, with history working in clinical MOUD counseling as well as residential treatment.
Audience:
Prescribing clinicians and their teams
Continuing Medical Education
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education and CCSME. The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education is accredited by the Maine Medical Association Committee on Continuing Medical Education and Accreditation to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education designates this regularly scheduled series for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
*Nurses and Nurse Practitioners will be awarded a certificate of participation with a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.
Contact Hours
1 contact hours for social workers, licensed clinical professional counselors, and behavioral health professionals.
1 Category I contact hours for psychologists. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Professional Education Activities for Psychologists.
1 contact hours for Alcohol and Drug Counselors pending approval by the Maine Board of Alcohol and Drug Counselors
1 contact hours CHES. CCSME is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
