Subject: Nursing
Course Number: 280
Course Title: Closing the Opioid Treatment Gap via Nurse Activation
Units: 1
School: Nursing
Department: Community Health Care Systems

Course Description: Course develops knowledge and clinical reasoning skills to provide patient-centered, evidence-based treatments for opioid use disorder (OUD), including field work where students observe medication treatment for OUD. Course focuses on the equitable expansion of OUD treatment by addressing stigma and structural barriers to treating marginalized populations, including people of color, rural communities, and adolescents/transition-age-youth.
Prerequisites: Completion of advanced pharmacology coursework (NURSING 232.01, NURSING 232.02 or similar course).
Restrictions: Not recommended for 1st-year MS students
Activities: Direct - Lecture, Direct - Field Work, Direct - Discussion, Online - Web-based course work, Student - Lecture

Instructor of Record: M. Tierney
Additional Instructor(s): E. Castillo, A. Leonard
May the student choose the instructor for this course? No
Does enrollment in this course require instructor approval? No

Quarter(s) Offered: Spring
Course Grading Convention: P/NP (Pass/Not Pass) or S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Graduate Division course: Yes
Is this a web-based online course? Yes
Is this an Interprofessional Education (IPE) course? No
May students in the Graduate Division (i.e. pursuing Master or PhD) enroll in this course? Yes
Repeat course for credit? No