2056-18: Mini Concurrent Sessions: Integrated Care

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2056-18: Applying the Chronic Care Model to Depression in a Large Integrated Health System: We Treat Depression the Same Way we Treat Diabetes | Nurse-Led Dermatology Service for Long-stay Patients in a Psychiatric Hospital, Singapore

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

Applying the Chronic Care Model to Depression in a Large Integrated Health System: We Treat Depression the Same Way we Treat Diabetes
Prevalence rates for depression are equivalent to other chronic conditions yet barriers to care result in only about 34% of those diagnosed with depression in primary care receiving treatment. We describe a program of utilizing experienced diabetes nurse care managers to deliver depression care utilizing a chronic disease management model.  
Presenter:  Yvonne T. Porterfield, MSN, PMHCNS-BC

Nurse-Led Dermatology Service for Long-stay Patients in a Psychiatric Hospital, Singapore
This presentation introduces the nurse-led dermatology service for 1,100 long-stay psychiatric patients: the trained dermatology psychiatric nurses coupled with visiting dermatology to provide monthly on-site consultation and monthly e-consultation through dermatology nurses assessing patients, taking digital photos of skin conditions & uploading to the ePortal for the dermatologist to review remotely.  
Presenter:  Changqing Xu, MN

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:  37 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN


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

  1. Adapt the essential elements of the Chronic Care Model to your specific health delivery system in order to develop a plan to address barriers to depression care.
  2. Leverage technology and innovation for a cost effective and sustainable care model, without compromising patient care.

Keywords:  Depression, Collaborative Care, Care Managers, IMPACT, Dermatology, Practice, Inpatient

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
4:00pm - 4:45pm

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

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