1035-17:  Problem Solving Treatment:  A Brief Evidenced-Based Therapy

As part of the APRN psychotherapy series this will be an in-depth presentation on problem solving treatment - a brief behavioral intervention for patients with depression, anxiety and other mental health disorders. Participants will learn the model, observe a role play and take part in a guided practice in PST.

Presenter:  Rita Haverkamp, MSN, PMHCNS-BC

Disclosures:  The presenter and planners have no conflict of interest or commercial support to disclose.  Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length:  2 Hours 42 minutes

Target Audience:  APRN

Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

1. Describe the theoretical model for PST and practice explaining it to a patient.
2. State the seven steps of PST and what questions will help elicit this information with the patient. 
3. Be able to provide a PST session on a patient case or non-sensitive personal situation.

Keywords:  Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Problem Solving, Brief Treatment

Continuing Nursing Education:
3.0 contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to presentation, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post-test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post-test and a score of 80% is required to pass. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. You cannot earn credit unless all steps are completed.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited with distinction as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 31st Annual Conference
Phoenix, Arizona
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
2:00pm - 6:15pm

The contact hours for this session expire:  December 31, 2019

1041-17:  Putting Entrepreneurship to Work to Improve Mental Health Outcomes:  You are Needed in Private Practice!

This interactive, lively presentation presents the opportunity to discuss, develop, and prioritize the steps necessary to formulate the entrepreneurial skills necessary to build and or expand a successful private practice.  The participant will leave with a foundation plan for taking the first steps to success.

Presenters:  Lucille C. Gambardella, PhD, PMHCNS-BC, CNE, ANEF

Disclosures:  The presenters and planners have no conflict of interest or commercial support to disclose.  Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length:  1 hour 12 minutes

Target Audience:  APRN

Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

1. Complete a self-assessment and personal readiness review to provide insight to the personal strengths needed to launch an independent practice as an entrepreneur to improve mental health outcomes.
2. Formulate a preliminary plan of action to initiate a private practice business.
3. List the essential elements that provide the framework for a private practice.

Keywords:  Entrepreneurship, Private Practice, Psychiatric Nursing Practice, Business Plan

Continuing Nursing Education:
1.5 contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to presentation, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post-test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post-test and a score of 80% is required to pass. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. You cannot earn credit unless all steps are completed.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 31st Annual Conference
Phoenix, Arizona
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
4:15pm - 6:15pm

The contact hours for this session expire:  December 31, 2019

1036-17:  Empowering Relationships: Taking Care of Ourselves and Others Mindful Self-Compassion in Practice

Self-Compassion, practice, can strengthen clinician resilience when working with the suffering of patients and challenges in the workplace to combat empathetic distress. This workshop will introduce the principles of mindful self-compassion and practice skills sourced from traditional contemplative practices and contemporary psychology and scientific research.

Presenter:  Maryanne Jones Godbout, DNP, PMHCNS-BC

Disclosures:  The presenter and planners have no conflict of interest or commercial support to disclose.  Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length:  1 Hour 35 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

1. Understand the principles, mechanisms, and neuroscience of mindful self-compassion.
2. Identify three ways to integrate self-compassion skills in daily clinical practice.
3. Describe self-compassion approaches to alleviate empathetic distress.

Keywords:  Compassion Fatigue, Self Care, Mindfulness

Continuing Nursing Education:
1.5 contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to presentation, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post-test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post-test and a score of 80% is required to pass. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. You cannot earn credit unless all steps are completed.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 31st Annual Conference
Phoenix, Arizona
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
2:00pm - 4:00pm

The contact hours for this session expire:  December 31, 2019

1042-17: Recovery Practice Implementation on Adult/Geriatric Acute Psychiatric Units

This session will explore the application of Trauma Informed Care and other interventions that incorporate the recovery model are to address violence or assault on a psychiatric inpatient unit while promoting a healing and therapeutic environment.

Presenters:  Mary Perez, MSN, RN-C; Kristen Yawea, DNPc, MBA, RN-C

Disclosures:  The presenters and planners have no conflict of interest or commercial support to disclose.  Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length:  1 Hour 14 minutes

Target Audience:  RN

Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

1. Identify two examples of adverse childhood experiences.
2. Categorize three signs and symptoms a person may experience with a history of trauma.
3. List two neurobiological effects of trauma.

Keywords:  Trauma Informed Care, ACE Study, Recovery

Continuing Nursing Education:
1.25 contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to presentation, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post-test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post-test and a score of 80% is required to pass. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. You cannot earn credit unless all steps are completed.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 31st Annual Conference
Phoenix, Arizona
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
4:15pm - 6:15pm

The contact hours for this session expire:  December 31, 2019

1037-17: The Match Game:  Matching Antidepressants to Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression--Which Drug for Which Symptom?

Through increasing understanding of receptor psychopharmacology, learn how to match the physical, emotional, and cognitive symptom clusters of depression with the appropriate antidepressant. Discussion will also focus on the use and efficacy of antidepressant receptor pharmacology  in the management of the same symptom clusters in the treatment of anxiety.

Presenter:  Mary D. Moller DNP, ARNP, PMHCNS-BC, CPRP, FAAN

Disclosures:  The speaker has indicated a significant financial interest or other affiliation with Speaker's Bureau for Alkermes Pharmaceutical.  Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation. The activity planners have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

Session Length:  1 Hour 54 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

1. Describe the concept of receptor pharmacology and the relationship of receptor function to the expression of psychiatric symptoms.
2. Compare the neurophysiology of the physical, emotional, and cognitive symptom clusters associated with depression and anxiety.
3. Formulate a pharmacological treatment plan based on receptor pharmacology for individuals diagnosed with a mood and/or anxiety disorder.

Keywords:  SSRI's, Antidepressants, Anxiety, Depression, Neurophysiology

Continuing Nursing Education:
2.0 pharmacology contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to presentation, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post-test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post-test and a score of 80% is required to pass. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. You cannot earn credit unless all steps are completed.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 31st Annual Conference
Phoenix, Arizona
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
2:00pm - 4:00pm

The contact hours for this session expire:  December 31, 2019

1032-17: Lessons Learned From Quality Improvement Project Aimed to Decrease the Fall Rate in the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit

A high rate of inpatient psychiatric unit falls led to the development of a multifaceted intervention project. This presentation will share strategies that decreased adult inpatient psychiatric unit rate of falls and falls with injury. Fall rate was reduced by 53%, fall rate with injury maintained at 0%.

Presenters:  Ilze S. Hallman, DNP, PMHNP-BC; Martha Hayes, BSN, RN; Nadia Charania, PhD, RN; Baljit Dhillon, BSN, RN

Disclosures:  The presenters and planners have no conflict of interest or commercial support to disclose.  Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length:  1 Hour 43 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

1. Identify three successful strategies for decreasing fall rates among inpatient psychiatric patients.
2. Discuss at least two potential barriers to implementation of falls reduction initiative.
3. Determine the five steps of the quality improvement model used in the fall project.

Keywords:  Fall Rate, DMAIC, Quality Improvement, Engagement

Continuing Nursing Education:
1.75 contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to presentation, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post-test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post-test and a score of 80% is required to pass. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. You cannot earn credit unless all steps are completed.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 31st Annual Conference
Phoenix, Arizona
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
2:00pm - 4:00pm

The contact hours for this session expire:  December 31, 2019

1027-17: Treating Tobacco & Nicotine Dependence:  How Your Assumptions About Treatment Can Undermine Your Delivery of Care

Providing effective tobacco treatment is a critical competency for clinicians treating patients with mental health issues who use tobacco. Nearly half of cigarettes are purchased by someone with a mental illness, who subsequently die an average of 25 years early. This presentation provides participants with translatable knowledge for effective interventions.

Presenter:  Carol Essenmacher PMHCNS-BC, DNP, CTTS

Disclosures:  The presenter and planners have no conflict of interest or commercial support to disclose.  Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length:  1 hour 54 minutes

Target Audience:  APRN

Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

1. Translate knowledge of pharmacological implications of the chemical nicotine and its content in tobacco products into effective interventions.
2. Summarize key points about nicotine dependence and treatment implications.
3. Demonstrate the ability to provide patients and colleagues with clarifying information on the use of other tobacco and nicotine delivery products.

Keywords:  Tobacco, Nicotine, Addiction, Neurobiology, Pharmacological Interventions, Smoking Cessation

Continuing Nursing Education:
2.0 pharmacology contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to presentation, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post-test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post-test and a score of 80% is required to pass. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. You cannot earn credit unless all steps are completed.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 31st Annual Conference
Phoenix, Arizona
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
10:15am - 12:15pm

The contact hours for this session expire:  December 31, 2019

1026-17: Integrating Care:  An Interdisciplinary Approach to Address Spiritual Needs

Participants will gain new skills for assessing spirituality and providing integrated wholistic care. A nurse/chaplain team will offer theory, evidence, assessment methods, and vignettes. Participants will practice new skills through in-session exercises so that they can return home ready to integrate them into their nursing practice.

Presenters:  Melissa Elliott, MSN, PMHCNS-BC; Yoshiya Takahashi, M.Div., BCC; Dallas M. Ducar, MSN, CNL

Disclosures:  The presenters and planners have no conflict of interest or commercial support to disclose.  Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length:  1 Hour 20 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

1. Define spiritual distress by listing three symptoms of spiritual struggle as seen on inpatient units.
2. Conduct a nursing spiritual assessment.
3. Collaborate with patient to write chaplaincy referral that will prepare both chaplain and patient to use the consultation effectively.

Keywords:  Spirituality, Chaplain, Existential, Inpatient Units, Virginia, Questions, Assessment, Holistic

Continuing Nursing Education:
1.75 contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to presentation, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post-test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post-test and a score of 80% is required to pass. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. You cannot earn credit unless all steps are completed.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 31st Annual Conference
Phoenix, Arizona
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
10:15am - 12:15pm

The contact hours for this session expire:  December 31, 2019

1025-17: "The medicine isn’t working, now what?”  Seeing Children through a Holistic Lens. How to Reconceptualize Difficult Cases in Children and Adolescents with Complex Behavioral Health Problems

Psychiatric APRNs often struggle when children don’t respond to evidence based treatment. This session will re-conceptualize, using a more holistic approach, the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of complex symptoms in children and adolescents. Evidence based screening tools, psychopharmacology and psychotherapeutic modalities will be reviewed via a case study method.

Presenters:  Joy A. Lauerer, DNP, PMHCNS-BC; Kathy Gaffney, MSN, PMHCNS, PNP- BC, PMHS-BC

Disclosures:  The presenters and planners have no conflict of interest or commercial support to disclose.  Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length:  1 Hour 47 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

1. Discuss how to diagnose and treat children and adolescents who have complex behavioral health symptoms with increased sensitivity and accuracy.
2. Describe how family stressors, the history of maltreatment and critical development stages influence the presentation of symptoms in children and adolescents.
3. Examine the role of psychotropic medication and psychotherapy in the treatment of children and adolescents with complex symptoms using unfolding case presentations.

Keywords:  Child and Adolescent, Bi-polar, Childhood Disorders, ADHD

Continuing Nursing Education:
1.75 contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to presentation, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post-test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post-test and a score of 80% is required to pass. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. You cannot earn credit unless all steps are completed.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 31st Annual Conference
Phoenix, Arizona
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
10:15am - 12:15pm

The contact hours for this session expire:  December 31, 2019

1024-17: The Neurobiology of Sleep and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)

Sleep disturbances are common in psychiatric disorders. The neurobiology of sleep and arousal offer a way to understand the relationship of insomnia to psychiatric symptoms.  CBT for insomnia is a first line treatment and will be discussed in this session.

Presenter:  Joanne DeSanto Iennaco, PhD, PMHCNS-BC, PMHNP-BC, APRN

Disclosures:  The presenter and planners have no conflict of interest or commercial support to disclose.  Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length:  1 hour 59 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

1. Compare normal and pathological components of hormonal, neural and circadian processes involved in arousal, sleep and sleep disorders and connect cognitive behavioral intervention techniques to neurobiological mechanisms of action.
2. Evaluate techniques to manage sleep problems including: sleep scheduling, bed restriction, wind down, light management, cognitive restructuring, medication tapering, sleep hygiene and relaxation training.
3. Choose strategies to apply to case examples to intervene with commonly occurring patterns of insomnia symptoms.

Keywords:  Sleep, CBT, Insomnia, Sleep Hygiene, Circadian Rhythm, Sleep-Wake Cycle, Sleep Journal

Continuing Nursing Education:
2.0 contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to presentation, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post-test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post-test and a score of 80% is required to pass. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. You cannot earn credit unless all steps are completed.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 31st Annual Conference
Phoenix, Arizona
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
10:15am - 12:15pm

The contact hours for this session expire:  December 31, 2019