
Coffee & Chat with APNA Councils
9:15AM – 10:15AM Eastern
Start your day with the APNA Councils! Fuel up with coffee while connecting with the councils and chatting with likeminded colleagues with expertise in addictions, administration, children & adolescents, education, mental health advocacy, practice, safe environments, recovery, and research & scholarship.
Concurrent Sessions | 0.75 Contact Hours
10:30AM – 11:15AM Eastern
9:30AM CT | 7:30AM PT
4011: Psychopharmacology Perspectives
10:30am – 11:15am Eastern
Can You Find the Best-Fitting Genes?: The Ins And Outs of Pharmacogenetic Testing and Its Applications. – RN APRN
This presentation will discuss the use of pharmacogenetic testing and decision support tools (DSTs) in clinical practice to guide decision making around appropriate medications. By reviewing the evidence for testing and clinical applications, participants will leave with a better understanding of testing, patient education around it, and guidance for practice.
Presenters: Aparna Kumar, PhD, MSN, MPH, MA, PMHNP-BC; Anne Kearney, MSN, CRNP
This session may be eligible for pharmacology contact hours.
4012: Culture
10:30am – 11:15am Eastern
Implementing a Safe Space for African American Employees to Develop Individualized Racism Recovery Plans – APRN
This presentation introduces the purpose of implementing safe spaces for Black employees in health care organizations that can reduce racial tension, decrease mental stressors, and promote healthy work environments.
Presenters: Deanna Stewart, DNP, RN
4013: Advanced Practice
10:30am – 11:15am Eastern
“Not a Real Doctor”: Reducing Professional Stigma of Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners – APRN
This presentation describes the ongoing exclusion and discrimination of PMHNPs by other health care professionals. Learners will gauge the severity of the problem and feel empowered with new knowledge of how to be an effective leader and intervene against incivility and hostility against our profession.
Presenters: Lisa Anderson, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC
4014: Substance Use
10:30am – 11:15am Eastern
It’s My Secret: Shame as a Barrier to Care in Individuals with Substance Use Disorder – RN APRN
Establishing trust/rapport, addressing stigma, providing education, and offering support and resources, is imperative to help patients manage SUD and to achieve optimal health outcomes. Through focus group interviews, we explored the concept of shame as a barrier to seeking health care and found four major themes and associated subthemes.
Presenters: Valerie Seney, PhD, MA, LMHC, PMHNP-BC; Monika Schuler, PhD, FNP-BC, CNE
Available to virtual livestream attendees.
4015: Trauma Informed Care
10:30am – 11:15am Eastern
Veterans and Military Sexual Trauma: A Trauma Informed Care Approach for Hope and Recovery – RN APRN
Veterans who experienced military sexual trauma seldom seek treatment and are at high risk for poor mental health outcomes including death by suicide. Using a Trauma Informed care approach that includes awareness, preparedness, and action can improve mental health outcomes and create a safe, whole-person, patient-centered avenue to recovery.
Presenters: Brenda Lee Mayfield, DNP, CRNP, PMHNP-BC; Sameera Rajpari, DNP, CRNP, PMHNP-BC; Emily Woods, MSN, CRNP, PMHNP-BC; Christopher Atchison, MSN, CRNP, PMHNP-BC
Available to virtual livestream attendees.
4016: Forensic
10:30am – 11:15am Eastern
Assessing The Risk of Violence in UK Prisons: Advanced Nursing Skills – APRN
This interactive presentation features the latest about violence and a guide to its assessment and management in practice. A film will be shown illustrating the skills under discussion. Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of assessing and managing the risk of violence in secure and other settings.
Presenter: Chris Hart, MA RMN RGN
4017: Research & Practice
10:30am – 11:15am Eastern
Recovery Resilience ReCreation (RRR): A Group Facilitator Training Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and the Arts as Medicine Created by Self Discovery Through Art (SDTA), a Non-profit Organization in Hilo, Hawaii – RN APRN
This presentation introduces a novel group facilitator training called Recovery Resilience ReCreation. Trainees are prepared in support group skills using CBT and the arts as medicine to strengthen resilience in individuals recovering from loss after adverse events. Demonstration of a symbolic art expression of a resilience skill will be presented.
Presenter: Nidhi A Chabora, MSN, APRN-BC; Nancy Jo Moses, BS, MA