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1021-20: Group Therapy for PMHRNs: Let's Get Started! 

This lively, interactive and experiential session will impart group concepts and motivational interviewing and will allow participants to practice these through group scenarios. Participants will gain skills to immediately benefit consumers in the inpatient setting or various settings where PMHRNs practice.

Presenters:  Leslie G. Oleck, MSN, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC, LMFT; Victoria G. Shull, BSN, RN

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

Session Length:  1 hour 30 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

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

• Demonstrate 2 Guiding principles of Motivational Interviewing.

Keywords:  PMH-RNs, Inpatient Group Therapy, Group Leadership

Nursing Continuing Professional Development:
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 with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 34th Annual Conference

The contact hours for this session expire:  November 30, 2023

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