3025-18: Spiritual Care in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: What is it? Are we Providing it? How does it fit into the Recovery Model of Care? 

Based on literature reviews and participant survey responses collected at 2017 APNA Annual Conference, this presentation will describe concepts of spirituality/religiosity and spiritual care in PMH nursing. Facilitators and barriers to providing spiritual care will be identified. How spiritual care can be integrated into recovery-oriented practice will be explained.

Presenter:  Melissa Neathery, PhD, CNE, RN

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:  32 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

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

• Identify three facilitators and three barriers to providing spiritual care to the PMH client.

Keywords:  Spiritual Care, Recovery, Research

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 32nd Annual Conference
Columbus, Ohio
Friday, October 26, 2018
2:45pm - 3:30pm

The contact hours for this session expire:  January 1, 2022