2012-17: Trauma-Informed Care:  Principles and Practice Guidelines

This presentation reviews the challenges and relevance of trauma informed care. Participants will receive information pertaining to the organizational structure and treatment framework that involves understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects of all types of trauma in the psychiatric population.

Presenter:  Gloria Dixon, DNP, PMHNP-BC

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:  49 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

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

1. Apply recovery-oriented principles and trauma focused care to individuals across the lifespan.
2. Demonstrate a therapeutic relationship consistent with compassionate patient-centered care to include confidentiality, privacy, comfort, emotional support, mutual trust, and respect.
3. Utilize techniques used in evidence-based psycho-therapeutic interventions.

Keywords:  Trauma, Advanced Practice

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 as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 31st Annual Conference
Phoenix, Arizona
Thursday, October 19, 2017
10:15am - 11:00am

The contact hours for this session expire:  February 28, 2020