Motivational Interviewing: Inspiring Behavior Change-CME Paid Option

This session will equip perioperative providers with practical strategies to guide patients toward healthier behaviors. The presentation will introduce the fundamental principles of Motivational Interviewing (MI) and demonstrate its powerful application in encouraging patient engagement in prehabilitation efforts. Through specific examples related to smoking cessation and alcohol reduction or discontinuation, participants will learn how to structure conversations that empower patients to identify their own motivations for change, ultimately leading to improved surgical outcomes and a smoother recovery. This session emphasizes a patient-centered approach to foster readiness for change, making it an invaluable tool for any healthcare professional interacting with surgical patients.

Iowa surgical providers, clinical teams, and patients who were prescribed pain medications.

1. Discuss how to utilize empathetic listening and affirmations to build rapport and understand patients' perspectives on health behavior changes in the perioperative setting.
2. Explain strategies to develop discrepancy by guiding patients to articulate the gap between their current behaviors (e.g., smoking, alcohol use) and their personal health goals for optimal surgical recovery.
3. Describe how to support patient self-efficacy by collaboratively identifying and reinforcing their strengths and past successes, enabling them to set achievable goals for behavior modification.

Donald Stader

Dr. Don Stader is a board-certified emergency and addiction medicine physician, who works at Swedish Medical Center and Lincoln Health in Colorado. Don is also the founder and Executive Director of The Naloxone Project. He is the founder and past chair of Colorado ACEP's Opioid Task Force, the Editor-in-Chief of COACEP's 2017 Opioid Prescribing & Treatment Guidelines, and the CO's CURE’s guidelines on pain control and opioid stewardship. Don served for over 2 years as the Senior Pain Management & Opioid Policy Physician Adviser for the Colorado Hospital Association and serves on multiple national and local committees addressing the opioid epidemic in Colorado and across the nation. He is the current chair of ACEP’s Pain & Addiction Management Section. He is the Medical Director of the Compass Opioid Stewardship Program, a nationwide initiative to improve pain control, prescribing habits, addiction treatment and opioid stewardship for primary care clinicians.

Rachael Duncan

Rachael Duncan, PharmD, BCPS, BCCP, is a Colorado-based clinical pharmacist board-certified in pharmacotherapy and critical care pharmacy. She has spent the past decade focused on policy, advocacy, and educational work surrounding opioid stewardship and addiction treatment at both the state and national level. Rachael is the Chief Clinical Officer of Epifluence, where she is Program Director of the Maternal Overdose Matters (MOMs+) Initiative and Associate Director of The Naloxone Project (TNP). She leads several educational and quality improvement initiatives focused on helping hospitals and health systems build addiction treatment infrastructure, with a special focus on rural and frontier communities. She is the author and editor of multiple state- and nation-wide guidelines around opioid stewardship, alternatives to opioids (ALTO) for pain management, and MOUD for addiction treatment, championed ALTO and MOUD across Colorado EDs with the Colorado Hospital Association, and published the first peer-reviewed paper on ALTOs in the ED. Rachael’s clinical experience is in ED and hospital pharmacy.

Continuing Medical Education (CME)

Accreditation: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Iowa Medical Society (IMS). Compass Healthcare Collaborative is accredited by the IMS to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation: Compass designates this live activity for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Commercial Support: This activity was developed without support from any ineligible company. *The ACCME defines ineligible companies as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Note: The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests unless the provider of clinical services is owned, or controlled by, and ACCME defined ineligible company.

Disclosure: Compass adheres to the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. The content of this activity is not related to products or the business lines of an ACCME-defined ineligible company. None of the planners or moderators for this educational activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing products used by or on patients.

Note: AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ are accepted for nursing and other healthcare discipline license renewal purposes, provided the topic is relevant to the applicant’s field or discipline. After participating, you will receive a Certificate of Attendance detailing the number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ you can claim. This certificate is provided for self-reporting requirements and must be submitted to your state board for license renewal.

Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Credit Designation: Improvement Activity (IA): This activity qualifies for MIPS credit as an Improvement Activity. Participants who successfully completed the activity are eligible for full credit for the Improvement Activities category of the MIPS program. Note: Each provider must attest to your participation and practice changes on the CMS QPP website but you can reference the MIPS verbiage noted below.

Activity Type: Patient Safety and Practice Assessment (IA_PSPA_CME):

Activity ID: IA_PSPA_28: Completion of an Accredited Safety or Quality Improvement Program.

Documentation includes:

Meaningful clinician participation in a project focused on improving pain management.
Documentation of data collection and analysis regarding prescribing patterns.
Implementation of interventions to improve quality or safety.
Measurement of the impact of the interventions.