3046-25: Shaping Care Excellence in Tobacco Treatment: Outcomes of Empowering Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses and other Mental Healthcare Providers within Community Mental Health Settings

This presentation will showcase the outcomes of empowering psychiatric-mental health nurses in tobacco treatment within community mental healthcare settings. Through collaborative evidence-based practice and research initiatives, this project fostered excellence in empowering mental healthcare providers to address tobacco-related disparities using a multi-interventional strategy involving needs assessments, targeted provider training and policy implementation.

Presenter:  Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli, PhD, MPH, APRN, PMHNP-BC, FAAN

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:  45 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

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

• Identify at least two tobacco treatment delivery strategies.

Key Takeaway(s): 

• Tobacco use disorder remains a persistent problem among people living with mental and behavioral health challenges.
• Multiple strategies are needed to intervene in treating tobacco use disorders among people living with mental and behavioral health challenges.
• Tobacco Treatment Specialist training programs can be an effective means of equipping PMHNs with the needed skills and competency to address tobacco use disorders.

Keywords:  Tobacco Use Disorder, Tobacco Treatment Strategies, Tobacco Treatment Specialist, Nicotine

Nursing Continuing Professional Development:
0.75 contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to the entire presentation, complete the reflection activity, evaluation, and honor statement before the expiration date. Once all steps are successfully completed, a certificate will be generated online and available for you to print immediately. Contact hours cannot be awarded unless all required components 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 2, 2025
Access to this course will end:  December 1, 2028

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