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2012-22: Medical Emergency Response Training in an Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital Setting: Improving Staff Confidence and Patient Outcomes

This presentation includes an overview of the creation of customized medical emergency response training for staff in an inpatient psychiatric hospital.  The training focuses on clinical decision-making and applying unfamiliar interventions in a high-stress simulation environment using low-fidelity equipment to increase staff confidence and improve patient outcomes.

Presenter:  Lesley Worsley-Hynd, MSN, RN, NPD-BC

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:  47 minutes

Target Audience:  RN

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

• Identify current gaps in medical emergency responses and how to create effective training to address gaps.

Keywords: Code Blue, Medical Emergency, Training, Inpatient, Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital

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

Originally Presented
APNA 36th Annual Conference
Long Beach, CA

The contact hours for this session expire:  October 1, 2025

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