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1043-24: Psychotropic Medications during the Perinatal Period: A Rational Approach to Prescribing

This presentation will give an overview of principles that can be used to guide psychotropic medication prescribing during the perinatal period. The use of specific medication classes and their use during pregnancy and lactation will also be discussed.

This session is only available for a limited time and will expire on December 1, 2025. This is an encore presentation from the APNA Clinical Psychopharmacology Institute (CPI) held in June 2024. Please be advised that contact hours may be claimed for either the presentation held at CPI or the APNA Annual Conference; credit cannot be claimed for both.

Presenter:  Lyons T. Hardy, EdD, MSN, PMHNP

Disclosures:  The APNA planners and faculty have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. Off-label uses will be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length:  1 hour

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

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

• Articulate at least two decision making strategies that should be used when prescribing psychotropic medications during the perinatal period.

Keywords:  Perinatal, Psychotropic Medications, Prescribing, Pregnancy, Women's Health

Nursing Continuing Professional Development:
1.0 pharmacology contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to the 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.

Release Date:  December 12, 2024
Access to this course will end:  December 1, 2025

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