1007-17: "I am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help!": How LEAP Can Transform Your Psychopharmacology Practice

The purpose of this session is to expand the knowledge base of PMH APRNs regarding the persistent Anasognosia that effects people with Schizophrenia, and the down-stream effect on adherence to a treatment plan. 

Presenter: Xavier F. Amador, PhD

Disclosures: Dr. Amador is the founder and current president of LEAP Associates, LLC. Off-label uses (using products for a purpose other than that for which it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA) will not be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Target Audience: RN, APRN 

Session Objectives:
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

1. Discuss research related to improving medication adherence for people with Schizophrenia or Bipolar disease.
2. Discuss barriers to therapeutic alliance and strategies for overcoming them in collaborative decision making.
3. Demonstrate the core and advanced components of the LEAP approach that strengthen collaborative psychopharmacologic nursing.

Keywords: Practice, Schizophrenia, Communication

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 15th Annual Clinical Psychopharmacology Institute
Hyatt Regency Baltimore on the Inner Harbor
Saturday, June 10, 2017
8:00am – 9:30am

The contact hours for this session expire: July 1, 2019