3206-21: Teaching Advocacy and Decreasing Stigma Through Social Media in an Undergraduate Mental Health Nursing Course

This presentation discusses how an assignment for BSN students about advocacy and decreasing stigma regarding a diagnosis of mental illness was changed due to restrictions of COVID-19.  Nursing students collaborated using mass communications to make positive videos to share on social media.

Presenter:  Gail Godwin, PHMNP-BC

Disclosures:  The presenter and planners have no conflict of interest or commercial support to disclose.  Off-label use of medications will not be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length:  20 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

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

• Discuss ways BSN students may assist in decreasing mental health stigma on social media.

Keywords:  Nursing Education, Advocacy, Social Media

Nursing Continuing Professional Development:
0.25 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 nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 35th Annual Conference

The contact hours for this session expire:  November 30, 2024