Recognizing and Treating an Opioid Overdose

Pat Maus

Target Audience

All MC patients who are dismissed from the inpatient or outpatient setting with an opioid
prescription greater than 90 mme will receive a naloxone (Narcan) prescription. The target
audience is these patients and their available significant others.

Terminal Objective:

After establishing that the patient is unresponsive and not breathing due to an opioid
overdose, administer intranasal naloxone according to the 5 steps presented in this module.
Cognitive (remember)

Overview

Giving naloxone to an individual who has overdosed on naloxone is a life-saving action.

This module will walk you through the 5 steps of giving intranasal (in the nose)
naloxone. Understanding the steps in giving naloxone will provide you with confidence
to act in an emergency overdose setting.

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Enabling Objective Level on Bloom’s Learner Delivery Method
Taxonomy Activity

Given an example of three Cognitive (Apply) Work through Self-paced Articulate

patients and their a module module
symptoms, correctly identify tutorial on
the patient that exhibits an opioid
opioid overdose. overdose.Then
view three
examples of
patients and
select (click
on) those
patients that
demonstrate
opioid
overdose
symptoms
Given an overdose Cognitive(remember) View a module Self-paced Articulate
scenario, identify (circle) 3 of the module
assessment
critical actions (rub knuckles
criteria of an
on sternum, call name, individual with
confirm absence of or an opioid
overdose.
minimal breathing) that must
Review a
be taken to determine that presented
naloxone administration is opioid
overdose
needed.
scenario and
select (click
on) the 3
actions that
must be taken
to confirm an
overdose

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Enabling Objective Level on Bloom’s Learner Delivery Method
Taxonomy Activity

Cognitive View the Self-paced Articulate

Given photos of the proper (remember) learning module
module of the
way to administer naloxone
procedure for
nasal spray, place them in naloxone
the proper order (number administration.
Review 4
them in order 1-4). Cognitive
photos that
(remember) represent the
steps in
naloxone
administration.
Place them in
the correct
order by
numbering
them 1-4