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1044-23:  Creating and Implementing a Psychiatric-Mental Health Focused Escape Room with Undergraduate Nursing Students

Can you escape this conference with an innovation to implement with your students or staff? Participants will create an escape room focused on psychiatric-mental health nursing. How to create clues, gather supplies, and run the escape room effectively will help participants develop their own scenario.

Presenters:  Wendy Carter Kooken, PhD, RN; Amanda J. Kemp, MSN, RN

Disclosures:  The APNA planners and faculty have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length:  1 hour

Target Audience:  RN

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

• Create an outline for a PMH escape room.

Keywords:  Nursing Education, Gaming Theory, Escape Room

Nursing Continuing Professional Development:
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 nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 37th Annual Conference
Lake Buena Vista, FL

Access to this course will end:  November 1, 2026

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