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202-22: KEYNOTE: The Journey to Use Meds Optimally To Support Recovery

Using psychiatric meds is more than learning to take pills on schedule. It's a journey that has many challenges. In this keynote address, Patricia E. Deegan PhD will draw on her professional, and personal experience of recovery after a diagnosis of schizophrenia, to illustrate how nurses can play a key role in helping to assess and support people through the challenges of using psych meds.

Presenter:  Patricia E. Deegan, PhD

Disclosures: The APNA planners and faculty, with the exception of those listed below, have no relevant financial relationship with ineligible companies to disclose. All relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated. Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.

CPI Planning Committee-Georgia L. Stevens, PhD, APRN, PMHCNS-BC, is a consultant and on the speakers’ bureau for Otsuka-Lundbeck, Alkermes, and Janssen.

Julie A. Carbray, PhD, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC, APRN, is on the advisory board for Alkermes and Supernus.

Session Length:  1 hour 28 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

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

• Identify 3 challenges a person may be experiencing on the journey to use medications optimally to support recovery.

Keywords:  Recovery, Medication Challenges, Medication Empowerment

Nursing Continuing Professional Development:
1.5 pharmacology 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.

Access to this course will end: August 1, 2025

© 2022 APNA. Reproducing and distributing this material without the written permission of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) is prohibited. 

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