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Threading Addiction Care Through Nursing Education: From Classroom to Clinical Practice     

Contact Hour:  1.0 contact hour
Target Audience:  RN, APRN  
Presenter:  Kathleen A. Schachman, PhD, PMHNP-BC, FAAN

Distinguish yourself as a psychiatric nurse leading transformational change in rural and other addiction care settings. Join a network of psychiatric nurses who are advancing addiction care through innovative, evidence-informed education strategies. Explore practical methods for enhancing nursing expertise in addiction care by embedding it into nursing curricula. Content emphasizes attitude transformation and partnerships with people who have lived experience. Participants learn practical implementation approaches that prepare nursing graduates for the realities of addiction care across all healthcare settings.  Gain the tools and knowledge to: 

• Design forward-thinking addiction care curricula
• Integrate the voices and experiences of individuals with lived experience
• Build clinical competencies using scaffolded learning approaches
• Develop sustainable, long-term educational initiatives
• Collaborative with recovery communities to enrich education

Learning Outcome: 

Upon completion of this program, the participant will: 

• Discuss two ways to build clinical competencies related to addiction care in rural communities through scaffold learning 

Disclosures:  The APNA planners and faculty have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.  Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation. 

Keywords:  Addiction, Education, Rural Health, Partnerships

Price:  Free

Nursing Continuing Professional Development:
1.0 contact hour.  * To receive contact hours, participants must:  Complete all the course components.  Once you have completed the course, post-test, honor statement and evaluation, and earned a passing score of at least 80% on the post-test, your nursing continuing professional development certificate will be generated online and available for immediate printing. Credit cannot be earned unless all course components are completed. No partial credit can be awarded.  

Grant Statement:

Funding for this initiative was made possible (in part) by grant no. 1H79TI088037 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Release Date:  July 2, 2025
Access to this course will end:  July 2, 2028

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.

© APNA 2025. Reproducing and distributing this material without the written permission of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) is prohibited. 

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