Description
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November 21, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:00 PMWithdrawal Management Case Studies for Nurses
Description:
Learning Objectives:
- Review management of complicated alcohol, opioid and stimulant withdrawal management
- Discuss challenges that face nurses in withdrawal management related to assessment, escalation of care and coordination with other disciplines
- Orient to the current substances commonly being treated and adapted to in withdrawal management programs
Presenter: Amelia Hersey, PA-C
Amelia Hersey, PA-C, is the medical director of Hope House Clinic at Penobscot Community Healthcare where she does street medicine, recovery and homelessness medicine. She has also been the lead provider for the New Horizons Detox Unit in Hampden (a ten-bed withdrawal management unit for acute opioid and alcohol withdrawal) since it opened in 2018. She had previously worked as the lead physician assistant with the Community Care and Geriatrics team at PCHC, working in skilled nursing and long-term care for the 8 years, where she treated patients in nursing facilities for opioid and alcohol use disorders.
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 ™.
This course has been approved by Co-Occurring Collaborative Serving Maine (CCSME), as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 1 educational credits. NAADAC Provider #324712, CCSME is responsible for all aspects of the programming.
Contact Hours 1 contact hours for social workers, licensed clinical professional counselors, and behavioral health professionals.
1 Category 1 Contact hours for psychologists. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Professional Education Activities for Psychologists.
1 contract hours CHES. CCSME is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission of Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
