2022-18: Guns, the Media, and Mental Illness: PMH Nursing's Response to Mass Shooting in American Schools

Mass school shootings have occurred recently, in Parkland, Florida. How can PMH nurses fight stigma by educating the public, the media, and legislators about the facts of gun violence (usually directed at self through suicide as opposed to against others).

Presenter:  Diane M. Wieland, PhD, MSN, RN, PMHCNS-BC, PMHNP-BC

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:  37 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

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

• Describe three facts about gun violence in teens and two misconceptions about students who become mass school shooters. 

Keywords:  Gun Violence, Adolescent, Suicide

Continuing Nursing Education:
0.5 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 with distinction 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
Thursday, October 25, 2018
11:15am - 12:00pm

The contact hours for this session expire:  December 31, 2020