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3011.1-24: Tobacco Treatment Engagement and Delivery within Assertive Community Treatment Services: Connecting Provider and Consumers Perspectives

People with serious mental illnesses (PSMI) continue to experience tobacco-use related disparities. Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) services are important settings to provide wrap-around care for PSMI, which should include tobacco treatment. Our presentation provides the survey results of ACT service consumers’ and providers’ perspectives on delivering and engaging in tobacco treatment.

Presenters:  Heather Robertson, MPA, Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli, PhD, MPH, APRN, PMHNP-BC, NCTTP, FAAN; Bassema M. Abufarsakh, PhD, MSN, RN, NCTTP

Disclosures:  The APNA planners and faculty have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length:  15 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

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

• Discuss intentions to engage in and deliver tobacco treatment in Assertive Community Treatment services.

Keywords:  Assertive Community Treatment, Tobacco Treatment, Serious Mental Illness

Nursing Continuing Professional Development:
0.25 contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to the 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.

Release Date:  December 1, 2024
Access to this course will end:  December 1, 2027

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