101-26: Emergency Psychiatry and Crisis Interventions: Helping People on Their Worst Days

This presentation will focus on the intersection of mental health and emergency medicine, whether in a hospital setting or someone’s front yard. This conversation will examine the principles, tenets, and therapeutic interventions that can help mitigate risk to both patients and clinicians while accentuating the need for systematic collaboration to achieve the best outcomes.

Presenter:  Tony Thrasher, DO, MBA, CPE, DFAPA

Disclosures:  The APNA planners and faculty have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length:  2 hours

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

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

• Identify two opportunities where crisis skills can lead to not only an immediate reduction of suffering but also the establishment of longitudinal rapport.

Keywords:  Agitation, Conflict Resolution, Engagement, De-escalation, Workplace Violence, Ethics

Nursing Continuing Professional Development:
2.0 contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to presentation, complete the evaluation and honor statement, and pass the post-test with a score of 80% or higher before the expiration date. Once all steps are successfully completed, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. Contact hours cannot be awarded unless all required components are completed. Partial credit will not be awarded.


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


Release date:  July 7, 2026
Access to this course will end:  July 31, 2028


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