3402-21:  Mental Health PPE for First Responders: Five Years in the Making 

This presentation outlines five years of research that aimed to develop a comprehensive mental health treatment program for first responders. Now developed and soon to be implemented and evaluated, Mental Health PPE: Personal Prevention and Education provides implications for daily practice to guide person-centered mental healthcare for first responders.

Presenter:  Sara Jones, PhD, APRN, PMHNP-BC, FAAN, FAANP

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:  42 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

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

• Understand three unique mental health needs of first responders.

Keywords:  First Responders, Firefighters, PTSD

Nursing Continuing Professional Development:
0.75 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