1014-18:  Unleashing Leadership's Power: Integrating Behavioral Health Nursing Across the Medical Center Continuum of Care

This presentation introduces a functional leadership model that provides system care and competencies to advance mental health care in all settings throughout a Medical Center. By the presence of mental health leaders taking an active role in care delivery patients are served most effectively with improved outcomes.

Presenter:  Tammy Moore, PhD, RN, NEA-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:  60 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

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

• Describe benefits of expanding nursing leadership accountability to all patients with mental health needs throughout a Medical Center enterprise.

Keywords:  Health Leadership, Nursing Leadership, Care Coordination

Continuing Nursing Education:
1.0 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 32nd Annual Conference
Columbus, Ohio
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
8:00am - 10:00am

The contact hours for this session expire:  January 1, 2022