2045-16: Inappropriate Placement of Delirium Patients on the Psychiatric Unit; Personalized Medicine: Using Psychogenomic Testing in Your Practice

This mini concurrent session includes two 20-minute presentations (described below) plus Q&A. 

Inappropriate Placement of Delirium Patients on the Psychiatric Unit
Delirium is a commonly misdiagnosed as a psychiatric illness. Inappropriate placement of delirium patients to psychiatric units often need emergent transfers due to medical events. This presentation will focus on one organization's journey into developing an assessment/screening tool that will assist in appropriate placement of patients to the psychiatric unit. Presenter: Michelle L. Geiss, RN-BC, BSN

Personalized Medicine: Using Psychogenomic Testing in Your Practice
Psychogenomics is a rapidly evolving field that predicts patient response to psychotropic medications based on genotype. By eliminating drugs that may not be efficacious either pharmacokinteically and/or pharmacodynamically, less trial and error in drug selection can result in less patient morbidity, and better outcomes. Presenter: Sheryl LaCoursiere, PhD, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC, APRN

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: 42 minutes

Target Audience: RN, APRN 

Session Objectives
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

1. Identify challenges of inappropriate placement of patients on psychiatric units.
2. Identify possible patient risk factors that may contribute to a patient having a physiological emergent event on the psychiatric floor.
3. Describe three common methods of selecting psychiatric medications in practice.
4. Utilize pharmacogenomics in your practice.

Keywords: Practice, Delirum, Assessment, Overshadowing, Genomics, Psychopharmacology, Genetics 

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 30th Annual Conference
Hartford, Connecticut
Thursday, October 20
3:00pm - 3:45pm 

Release Date: May 30, 2017
The contact hours for this session expire: November 30, 2019