4032-16:  Integrating Mental Health Topics into a Family Practice Primary Care Curriculum

This presentation will examine a very successful Family Nurse Practitioner Program and discuss the integration of mental health topics throughout the curriculum through collaboration between Psychiatric and Family Nurse Practitioner faculty.

Presenters: Shonda Phelon, DNP, APMHNP-BC, FNP-BC, GNP-BC; Sueanne Davidson, DNP, FNP-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:  44 minutes

Target Audience:  APRN

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

1. Explain how mental health topics are integrated throughout a Family Nurse Practitioner curriculum.
2. Identify conditions that are treated by both Psychiatric and Family Nurse Practitioners.
3. Examine methods of collaboration and integrating mental health topics into the Family Nurse Practitioner curriculum.

Keywords: Graduate Education, Mental Illness, Integrated Care, Nurse Practitioner Curriculum

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
12:15pm - 1:00pm

Release Date: January 19, 2017
The contact hours for this session expire:  November 30, 2019