As a result of completing the Consultations Skills Module, we hope you will feel better equipped and more confident to:
- Conduct consultations with patients with persistent pain
- Explore the impact of persistent pain on patients’ lives
- Explore the effects (wanted and unwanted of opioids prescribed for persistent pain)
- Understand the patient’s perspective on opioids and their readiness to make changes to their opioid medicines
- Explore ambivalence to changing opioids
- Explain persistent pain and the issues around opioids therapy, incorporating patients’ health beliefs and best practice guidance
- Discuss the role of self-care for persistent pain
- Negotiating management plans with patients and shared decision making
