4024-18: RN Evaluation of Mild to Moderate ED Psychiatric Patients to Decrease Inpatient Admissions

This presentation discusses the usage of Registered Nurses in the early assessment, and referral to least restrictive settings/alternative services, and follow-up, of the mental health client experiencing an emergent or perceived emergency situation.

Presenters:  Brenda Severson, RN; Cherish De La Cruz, RN, BSN

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:  37 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

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

• Understand the need of effectively linking patients to outpatient services to decrease ED usage.

Keywords:  Triage, RN Evaluation, Least Restrictive

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 with distinction as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 32nd Annual Conference
Columbus, Ohio
Saturday, October 27, 2018
11:15am - 12:00pm

The contact hours for this session expire:  December 31, 2020