Problem
A. Provide the name of Florida's organization, group or task force that created guidelines or recommendations for pain management therapies and education.
B. Where you found this information (weblink):
C. Overview of your Florida's guideline development with web address.
D. Locate federal guidelines and provide a link to federal guidelines you could use in practice as a NP
E. Provide a brief overview of the group's recommendations or initiatives (provide link to where you found information).
F. Provide a brief overview of the guidelines published by the American Pain Society OR Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (provide link to where you found information).
G. Discuss when the use of opioids is appropriate and for what duration should they be prescribed? Provide a reference for your response.
H. Identify the law, rule, code, or statute that describes the advanced practice nurse's authority to prescribe controlled substances in Florida. Link to where you found law, rule, code, or statute for Florida.
I. What does the law, rule, code, or statute say?
J. Conditions or limits on prescribing schedule I-V controlled substances.
K. Requirements (if any) in documentation for treating acute and chronic pain. If Florida has no requirements for this, confirm with a link of where you found this information.
L. Are there specific requirements for advanced practice nurses to reference the Florida's prescription drug monitoring database before prescribing a controlled substance? Yes or No If yes, what are they? If not, how would they be helpful?
M. Name of the Florida's program.
N. Website for Florda Prescription Drug Monitoring Program. Discuss the registration requirements and process.
O. Discuss the standards and procedures for the access and review of database information. Link to where you found law, rule, code, or statute for Florida regarding prescribing Durable Medical Equipment in Florida.
P. What does the law, rule, code, or statute say regarding prescribing Durable Medical Equipment in Florida?
Q. Conditions or limits on prescribing medical devices or Durable Medical Equipment.
R. Requirements (if any) in documentation needed to support order of medical devices or Durable Medical Equipment.