3023-17: Utilizing Telehealth to Overcome Clinical Site Challenges

The session explores the barriers to mental health nursing clinical experiences in rural settings.  It discusses how telehealth can provide students an opportunity to learn to deliver quality care to a diverse population while increasing patient satisfaction.

Presenter:  Stephanie T. Wynn, DNP, RN-BC, PMHNP-BC, COI

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:  27 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

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

1. Describe a telehealth clinical experience for psychiatric mental health nursing students.
2. Identify the role of the student, faculty, and practitioner in a telehealth clinical experience.
3. Identify available technology to remove barriers to mental health clinical learning experiences.

Keywords:  Telehealth, Education, Rural Healthcare, TeSS, Nursing Students

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
Friday, October 20, 2017
2:45pm - 3:30pm

The contact hours for this session expire:  February 28, 2020