4022-16:  Enhancing Child and Adolescent Content & Clinical Training in Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing Programs: A Joint Workshop from the APNA Child & Adolescent Council and the APNA Education Council, Graduate Branch

Child/adolescent psychiatric/mental health content is now required in all PMHNP programs. This session features a panel of graduate faculty in PMHNP programs discussing how they incorporate child/ adolescent content and creatively leverage community psychiatric resources to provide quality clinical experiences for their graduate students.

Presenters: Pamela Lusk, DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC; Jason Earle, PhD, PMHNP-BC; Erin Ellington, DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC

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:  41 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

Session Objectives
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

1. Discuss the basic knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed by the PMHNP to provide evidence based psychiatric/mental health care to children and adolescents.
2. Identify various child/adolescent teaching strategies and clinical training opportunities that can be employed in PMHNP programs.
3. Create a forum where teaching strategies for child /adolescent content and PMHNP learning opportunities can be shared. 

Keywords: Child and Adolescent, Graduate Education, Clinicals, On-line Programs, Hybrid Programs, Competencies, Psychotherapy Training

Continuing Nursing Education
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 continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. 

Originally Presented
APNA 30th Annual Conference
Hartford, Connecticut
Saturday, October 22
11:15am - 12:00pm

Release Date: February 21, 2017
The contact hours for this session expire:  November 30, 2019