1045-18: From the Behavioral Unit to the Medical Unit: A Revolutionary Approach in Nursing for those Suffering from Mental Health and Addiction Illnesses

This highly engaging presentation looks at mental health and addiction illnesses through the lens of trauma-informed care and provides a road map for others on how to inform their personal practice - or bigger - drive change across any hospital unit or system.

Presenter:  Frank Beel, MSN, MHA, RN

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

Session Length:  1 Hour 35 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

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

• Identify one way trauma-informed care principles will be applied to improve one's personal practice, unit or system.

Keywords:  Trauma-Informed Care, Mental Health, Addiction

Continuing Nursing Education:
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 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
4:15pm - 6:15pm

The contact hours for this session expire:  January 1, 2022