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2034-17: Trauma Informed Care at the Bedside - The Challenges

The presentation will focus on the challenges of incorporating trauma informed and recovery practices into an acute  behavioral health inpatient setting, using trauma informed and DBT techniques. The topic will be presented through the eyes of the nursing leader and include case studies.

Presenter:  Ann Taylor-Trujillo, RN, MSN, EdD, CENP

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:  35 minutes

Target Audience:  RN

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

1. Identify ways to implement a trauma informed program at the bedside in an environment of declining resources.
2. Discuss alternatives to traditional models of milieu therapy for acutely ill patients with psychiatric disorders.
3. Analyze the organizational impact from a leadership perspective of implementing recovery based practices at the bedside.

Keywords:  Trauma Informed Care

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 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
12:15pm - 1:00pm

The contact hours for this session expire:  January 1, 2021

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