1033-18:  Grounding of the Novice Nurse Educator for Teaching Undergraduate Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

This interactive, dynamic presentation supports the opportunity to discuss, develop, and articulate suggested education and experience for effectively teaching psychiatric nursing at the undergraduate level. The participant will leave with an appreciation for the preparation of a psychiatric nurse educator in academia teaching undergraduate psychiatric nursing courses.

Presenters:  Katherine B. Evans, DNP, RN; Todd B. Hastings, PhD, MS, RN; Melissa Neathery, PhD, RN, CNE; Karyn Morgan, MSN, APRN-CNS

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

Session Length:  54 minutes

Target Audience:  RN

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

• Describe three types of education and experience needed by nurse educators teaching psychiatric nursing skills in classroom and clinical settings.

Keywords:  Undergraduate Education, Toolkit, Nurse Educator, Competency, Psychiatric Nursing

Continuing Nursing Education:
0.75 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 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
2:00pm - 4:00pm

The contact hours for this session expire:  December 31, 2020