Tele-Pharmacy Certification (TPC)
Course Overview
A tele-pharmacy certification with an emphasis on opioid education offers multiple advantages:
- It equips health care professionals with the knowledge to understand opioids responsibly, reducing the risk of misuse, addiction, and overdose. This specialized training ensures that patients receive the correct dosage, counseling on potential side effects, and safe storage and disposal guidance.
- Through tele-pharmacy, health care professionals can reach patients in remote or underserved areas, ensuring equitable access to pain management.
- The certification highlights the health care professional’s commitment to continuous learning and patient safety, establishing greater trust with patients and healthcare providers.
Overall, this certification enhances quality care, safety, and accessibility.
The course is completely online and is affordable ($599, all-inclusive) for diverse practice settings and practitioners, as well as administrators in the healthcare field. If you’re looking to understand the world of tele-pharmacy and the tools and strategies used to guide and apply these concepts in healthcare, you’ve come to the right place.
GHA Institute’s Tele-Pharmacy Certification (TPC) course is fully comprehensive and fully online. Upon completion, students will be able to move seamlessly from the training environment into the workplace and begin leading Tele-pharmacy projects. We recommend this course to those new to health care or interested in entering the health care market with a better understanding of emerging technology usage.
No prerequisites are required for this course.
Key module objectives are to:
- Tele-pharmacy in Opioid Management: Introduce the concept of tele-pharmacy and how it can play a pivotal role in remote consultations, monitoring opioid prescriptions, and providing patient education on safe opioid usage.
- Comprehensive Opioid Understanding: Equip learners with a thorough understanding of opioids, their classifications, and their historical significance in pain management.
- Distinguishing Opiates from Opioids: Enable learners to discern between opiates and opioids, appreciating the nuanced differences in their sources and applications.
- Awareness of Addiction Mechanisms: Foster a deep comprehension of how opioids engender addiction, emphasizing the biochemical and psychological underpinnings.
- Recognition of Opioid Use Disorder: Inculcate skills to identify signs and symptoms of opioid use disorder, aiding early detection and intervention.
- Comparative Analysis: Examine the distinctive nature of opioid addiction in the backdrop of other substance addictions, highlighting its unique challenges and implications.
- Overdose Prevention and Management: Equip learners with strategies to prevent opioid overdoses, recognize overdose symptoms, and administer timely interventions.
- Regulatory and Ethical Concerns: Educate learners on the current regulatory landscape surrounding opioid prescriptions, and emphasize the ethical responsibilities of healthcare providers in the face of the opioid crisis.
Learning Outcomes for the Opioid and Tele-pharmacy Course:
- Tele-pharmacy in Opioid Management: By the end of the course, learners will be able to articulate the principles of tele-pharmacy and demonstrate its application in facilitating remote consultations, monitoring opioid prescriptions, and educating patients on safe opioid use.
- Comprehensive Opioid Understanding: Learners will possess a robust knowledge of opioids, encompassing their diverse classifications and their historical evolution as pain management tools.
- Distinguishing Opiates from Opioids: Learners will confidently differentiate between opiates and opioids, showcasing an understanding of their distinct origins and uses.
- Awareness of Addiction Mechanisms: Upon completion, learners will grasp the multifaceted mechanisms through which opioids lead to addiction, focusing on both biochemical and psychological aspects.
- Recognition of Opioid Use Disorder: Learners will acquire the aptitude to detect and assess signs of opioid use disorder, enabling timely intervention.
- Comparative Analysis: By the end of the course, learners will be equipped to contrast opioid addiction with other forms of substance addictions, elucidating its distinct challenges.
- Overdose Prevention and Management: Learners will master techniques to preempt opioid overdoses, identify indications of an overdose event, and respond with appropriate interventions.
- Regulatory and Ethical Concerns: Upon course completion, learners will be well-versed in the regulatory framework governing opioid prescriptions and will demonstrate an appreciation for the ethical obligations of healthcare practitioners amidst the opioid crisis.
Tele-Pharmacy Certification (TPC)
$599
- Tele-Pharmacy Professional Certification (TPC) Online Course Lessons and Quizzes (12-months access)
- TPC Course eBook (a downloadable reference manual that does not expire)
- TPC Certification Exam
- TPC tools and templates, and the
- TPC Case studies– Essentially everything you need to become certified and lead projects in the workplace.
- Instructor Support (12-months access)
- Simulated Project
- ANCC: 5 CH
- HIMSS: 5 CH