4032-18: Trauma Informed Medication Education

Patients with trauma histories frequently confront polypharmacy and prescribing relationships rife with miscommunication. Guidelines for initiating or supporting a “de-prescribing” model, and addressing non-adherence will be reviewed. Facilitated practice of brief cognitive restructuring of medication beliefs and challenging conversations about the meaning of medications will get everyone talking.

Presenter:  Kathryn Kieran, MSN, PMHNP-BC

Disclosures:  The presenter and planners have no conflict of interest or commercial support to disclose.  Off-label uses will be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length:  53 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

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

• Identify common features of de-prescribing and trauma-informed care, and give an example using these principles in context.

Keywords:  Trauma, Education, Medication

Continuing Nursing Education:
1.0 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 32nd Annual Conference
Columbus, Ohio
Saturday, October 27, 2018
12:15pm - 1:00pm

The contact hours for this session expire:  January 1, 2022