3041-17: APRN Council Interactive Panel

The Interactive Panel will discuss Steering Committee achievements in assisting PMH-APRNs to navigate such challenges as reimbursement issues and scope of practice issues, advancement toward achieving full practice authority, and expansion of the APRN role within different models of integrated medicine models emerging throughout the country.

Presenters: Dana Jeanne Olive, PhD, PMHNP-BC; Kathryn Johnson, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC; Sattaria 'Tari'  Dilks, DNP, PMHNP-BC, FAANP

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:  1 hour 26 minutes

Target Audience:  APRN

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

1. Discuss the state of APRN practice, legislative trends, scope of practice and reimbursement issues.
2. Discuss ways of mentoring.
3. Apply lessons learned about how PMH-APRN's are being utilized within integrated health care settings to their own APRN practice environments.

Keywords: APRN Practice, Councils, APNA, Advocacy

Continuing Nursing Education:
1.5 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
4:45pm - 6:15pm

The contact hours for this session expire:  January 1, 2021