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1024-20: "Not Just a Little Here and a Little There". Optimizing Best Practice Strategies For the Safe Cross-Titration and Tapering of Psychotropic Medications in Children and Adolescents

This interactive presentation will integrate key principles of cross-titration and tapering of psychotropic medications with specific case studies. The participant will gain a  better understanding of things to consider and safe principles for both the cross-titration and tapering of psychotropic agents to prevent destabilization of target symptoms and possible hospitalization.

Presenters:  Nancy Noyes, PPCNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC; Meredith McCauley, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP

Disclosures:  The presenters and planners have no conflict of interest or commercial support to disclose.  Off-label use of medications will be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length:  1 hour 39 minutes

Target Audience:  APRN

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

•  Identify patient-specific factors influencing appropriate titration or tapering schedule.

Keywords:  Child and Adolescent, Psychopharmacology, Cross-tapering Psychotropic Agents

Nursing Continuing Professional Development:
1.75 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 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:  December 1, 2023

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