Product Theater Breakfast | No Contact Hours Provided
7:15am-8:45am Central
Sponsored by Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.
Keynote Presentation | 1 Contact Hour
9:00AM – 10:00AM Central
7:00AM PT | 10:00AM ET
The Power of One – RN APRN
This dynamic program offers real solutions to the struggle of how to keep the patient first despite limited time and other practical constraints. By weaving her remarkable journey with potent life-lessons, Massari will highlight the integral nature of person-centered care and how nurses lead the way in changing the system and achieving care excellence. Massari offers a sincere and direct approach with applicable tools for managing change, adversity, and the everyday challenges of being human.
Presenter: Allison Massari
This session is available to virtual attendees.
Poster Presentations Open | Up to 4 Contact Hours
10:00AM – 3:00PM Central
Earn up to 4 contact hours for time spent viewing and evaluating the poster presentations Thursday – Friday.
Exhibit Hall Open
10:00AM – 1:00PM Central
See the latest innovations and opportunities from industry stakeholders in psychiatric-mental health nursing.
Meet the Poster Presenters
10:30AM – 11:30AM Central
Meet the bright minds behind this year’s poster presentations. Presenters will be standing with their posters during this period, ready to answer questions and discuss their topics.
Mini Concurrent Sessions | 0.75 Contact Hours
12:05PM – 12:50PM Central
12:05PM PT | 1:05PM ET
3011: Inpatient
12:05pm – 12:50pm Central
Fall Busters: Who Ya Gonna Call to Prevent Falls? – RN
This session highlights proactive fall prevention strategies in an inpatient psychiatric setting, emphasizing the role of PMH nurses. Learn how weekly rounds, safety huddles, and staff education reduced falls with severe harm, enhancing patient safety and care quality. Engage in interactive discussions and practical applications.
Presenters: Joseph Zimmerman, MSN, RN, CNL, CPPS, CPHQ; Michelle Cain, RN, CWC
Skin Deep: Reducing Pressure Injuries in Med-Psych Patients – RN
Guided by evidence-based practice, an inpatient behavioral health unit responded to decrease hospital acquired pressure injuries among medical-psychiatric patients through the implementation of a Psychiatric HAPI Prevention Bundle.
Presenter: Cardina Ross, MSN-L, RN, PMH-BC, GERO-BC, NE-BC
3012: Community Care
12:05pm – 12:50pm Central
Take It to the Streets: Meeting Patients Where They Are When They Are Ready – RN APRN
This presentation illustrates the benefits of instituting a Mobile Integrated Health program to address unmet medical, psychiatric, and social needs of unhoused persons. Realized benefits of improved patient health outcomes, reduction of unnecessary medical spending, and reduction of costly emergency department visits were the products of this program.
Presenter: Rebecca J. Lagger-Dyar, FNP-BC
Bridging the Gap: Advancing Mental Health in Rural Communities – RN APRN
Addressing mental health in rural communities requires a multifaceted approach that considers social determinants, healthcare access, and innovative intervention strategies. This presentation will explore the intersection of psychiatric-mental health and rural healthcare disparities. Discussion will include challenges faced by individuals living in rural areas and solutions to increase services.
Presenter: Marian L. Farrell, PhD, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC, CRNP
This session is available to virtual attendees.
3013: Child & Adolescent
12:05pm – 12:50pm Central
Unveiling the Digital Maze: A Comprehensive Scoping Review on Problematic Media Use and Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents – RN APRN
This engaging presentation provides a broad-level overview on the available evidence that examines the directionality between problematic media use and psychopathology in children and adolescents, allowing RNs and APRNs the opportunity to better understand a complex, growing phenomenon in young people.
Presenter: Katelin A. Crane, MSN, CRNP, PMHNP-BC
The Impact of Trauma on Neurodevelopment and Behavior in Adopted Children: Preliminary Findings from an Integrative Review – RN APRN
This presentation forwards preliminary evidence-based findings from an integrative review of the biopsychosocial impact of trauma on adopted children and subsequent behavioral challenges manifested by the children. The impact of both pre- and post-placement adversity on critical periods of brain development will be examined.
Presenter: Jana A. Ambrogne, PhD, PMHNP-BC
3014: Undergraduate Education
12:05pm – 12:50pm Central
Implementation of a Multi-Patient, Team Psychiatric Simulation for Undergraduate Nursing Students – RN APRN
The presenters will outline strategies to scaffold complexity in psychiatric simulations, highlighting experiences from an undergraduate nursing program.
Presenters: Brandon Thatcher, MSN, PMHNP-BC; Michael Thomas, PMHNP-BC; Catherine Wendel, SN
Empowering PMH Educators to Provide Innovative, Collaborative, and Tech-Based Strategies for the Generation Z (Gen Z) Student Population – RN APRN
PMH nursing faculty need to integrate interactive teaching strategies that meet the learning styles of the Gen Zs to promote learning and preparation for nursing practice. This presentation will present specific teaching strategies such as AI usage, gamification, microlearning, content delivery modalities, discussions, quizzing, and assessment strategies.
Presenters: Traci T. Sims, DNS, RN, CNS/PMH – BC; Melissa Neathery, PHD, RN, CNE
3015: RN Practice
12:05pm – 12:50pm Central
Enhancing Quality of Psychiatric Inpatient Care Through Nursing-Driven Protocols: Innovations in Tobacco Use Disorder and Metabolic Screening – RN
This session explores the impact of nurse-driven protocols on psychiatric inpatient care, focusing on metabolic screening for patients on antipsychotics and tobacco use disorder treatment. Participants will examine implementation strategies, outcome data, and future implications for expanding nurse-led interventions to improve patient care and compliance with evidence-based practices.
Presenter: James T. DeMarco, DNP, RN, PMH-BC
Bridging the Gap: Developing a Psychiatric Nurse Liaison Program for Acute Care Patients – RN APRN
The Psychiatric Nurse Liaison (PNL) model enhances mental health integration in acute care, improving patient outcomes through early intervention, crisis management, and care coordination. This presentation explores the PNL’s role, benefits and impact, highlighting its ability to reduce hospital stays, prevent readmissions, and support trauma-informed patient-centered care in medical settings.
Presenters: Elizabeth Caine, MSHA, MBA; Rachel G. Bailey, MBA, BSN, RN; Andrew Taylor Harris, BSN, RN; Rachel Purser, MSN, RN-BC, PMHNP-BC
This session is available to virtual attendees.
3016: Complementary & Alternative Therapies
12:05pm – 12:50pm Central
Integrative Psychiatry: Incorporating Complementary and Integrative Therapies in Advanced Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Practice – APRN
This interactive, lively presentation presents the opportunity to define, discuss, and review current trending research for incorporation of integrative psychiatric therapies into advanced mental health practice, including supplementation, gut-biome implications, and mind-body therapies, prioritizing those therapies with evidence-based research support in efficacy.
Presenter: Bethanie M. Simmons-Becil, DNP, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, APHN-BC
The Effects of the 4-7-8 Breathing Technique on Perceived Stress and Depression Levels in Long COVID Patients – RN APRN
This engaging session explores the impact of Long COVID on mental health and introduces the 4-7-8 breathing technique as a simple, evidence-based intervention to reduce stress and depression. Through a quality improvement framework, participants will examine outcomes, discuss clinical implications, and explore practical strategies for integrating breathing techniques into practice.
Presenters: Brittany Utley, DNP, MSN-Ed, APRN, PMHNP-BC; Marika Whitaker, DNP, MHA, RN, NPD-BC, PCCN
3017: Safety
12:05pm – 12:50pm Central
Effect of Electronic Formal Observation on Self-harm, Falls, Aggression, and Emergency Department Transfers Among Psychiatric Inpatients: Quality Improvement Project – RN
This presentation examines the challenges and benefits of implementing a handheld electronic rounding system to conduct proximity-based observations in the behavioral health setting. By evaluating the effectiveness of the electronic protocol on an inpatient psychiatric unit, this quality improvement project proposes improvements in patient safety monitoring to prevent adverse events.
Presenter: William Chu, BSN, RN
Adaptation of the Safewards Interventions to a Residential Community Serving Formerly Houseless Individuals: Implementation Lessons and Impact on Behavioral Incidents – RN APRN
This presentation describes the Safewards program model, which has been shown to reduce conflict and containment on psychiatric units in international studies. It presents lessons learned from adapting the program’s interventions to a residential setting that serves formerly homeless individuals, including a review of trends in behavioral incidents.
Presenters: Kasey McCracken, MPH, DNP, PMHNP-BC
Product Theater Lunch | No Contact Hours Provided
1:00pm-2:30pm Central
Sponsored by Bristol Myers Squibb
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