DCNP Conference 10/11/25 Bayhealth Kent Campus Focus on a Session: Addressing Spine Pain and Opioid Use: Safe, Effective Strategies for Modern Pain Management

DCNP returns to the Bayhealth Kent Campus Simulation Center for  full day 10/11/25  Learn more and register

Focus on a Session:  Addressing Spine Pain and Opioid Use: Safe, Effective Strategies for Modern Pain Management

Spine pain remains one of the most prevalent and burdensome health conditions in the United States, with the CDC estimating that over 100 million individuals experience an episode annually. Beyond its direct impact, the condition is closely tied to opioid prescribing patterns. Research indicates that up to 61% of patients with spine-related pain receive an opioid prescription, with approximately 19% developing long-term use as a result.

While Delaware has made notable progress in addressing opioid misuse, overdose rates at both the state and national levels have surged in recent years. This underscores the urgent need for clinical strategies that effectively manage chronic spine pain without reliance on opioid medications.

Join Selina Xing, MD—board-certified in Interventional Pain Management and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation—and Travis McKay, DC—Clinic Director of Advanced Back & Neck Pain Center and President of the Newark-based nonprofit Hands for Life Omega Drive—for an in-depth discussion on evidence-based, non-opioid approaches to spine pain management. Both are active members of the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services’ Addiction Action Committee.

This session will equip healthcare providers with practical tools and clinical insights to guide safe prescribing practices, determine when and how to avoid opioid use, and implement effective alternative therapies for improving patient outcomes.

Join the Delaware Coalition of Nurse Practitioners (DCNP) for our  CE Conference for nurse practitioners and nurse practitioner students! The conference will provide a wide range of information across the lifespan and all NP certifications. Please see the exciting curriculum we have developed and our outstanding faculty. The registration fee includes your anticipated 7.25 CE (AANP Application will be submitted for 7.25, majority of which in pharmacology), breakfast and lunch in the state of the art simulation PCOM Simulation Center at Bayhealth Medical Center, Dover, DE. Exhibitors will also be onsite representing pharmaceutical companies and other organizations of interest to Delaware nurse practitioners. 

Tentative Schedule

7 am -7:45 am: Registration, continental breakfast, exhibitors 

7:45: Welcome

8:-9 am:  Keynote: What they don't know will hurt you, Gale Adcock, FNP, NC State Senator

9 am-10 am Pharmacologic Management of Diabetes Across the Lifespan, Stacy L. Thomas, DNP, APRN, FNP-C i
10 am-10:30 am: Break, exhibitors 

10:30-11:30 am: Top New Meds Cameron Golden, PharmD  

11:30 am -12:30 pm: Women’s Health Jennifer Korkosz DNP, WHNP-BC, APRN

12:30-1:30 pm: Lunch, visit with exhibitors 

1:30-2:30 pm: Management of ADHD Across the Lifespan

2:30-3:30 pm:   GLP 1

3:30 pm-3:45 pm: Break, visit with exhibitors 

3:45 pm-5 pm: Addressing Spine Pain and Opioid Use: Safe, Effective Strategies for Modern Pain Management, Selina Xing, MD & Travis McCay, MD