Mini Concurrent Sessions
3:30PM – 4:15PM PT
5:30PM CT | 6:30PM ET
0.75 Contact Hours
2031: Advanced Practice
3:30pm – 4:15pm Pacific
A Comprehensive Review on the Pharmacokinetic Changes of Antidepressant/Antianxiety Medications after Gastric Bypass Surgery – APRN
This presentation introduces characteristics of bariatric surgery and relevant anatomical changes to illustrate how bariatric surgery impacts the pharmacokinetics of medications. By reviewing and synthesizing knowledge from current research, this presentation will provide insight into psychotropic management after bariatric surgery.
Presenter: Heeyoung Lee, PhD, PMHNP-BC, FAAN
Rethinking the Therapeutic Nurse-Patient Relationship in a Telepsychiatry Environment – APRN
This interactive presentation introduces a multidisciplinary perspective on the impact of care delivery via telehealth on the nurse-patient relationship. Participants will be asked to creatively design nursing interventions to rethink the foundational therapeutic relationship in psychiatric-mental health nursing when it happens remotely.
Presenter: Karen Goyette Pounds, PhD, PMHCNS-BC
2032: Inpatient
3:30pm – 4:15pm Pacific
Advocating for Health Justice in the Correctional System: An Essential Role for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses – RN, APRN
This presentation explores the criminalization of mental illness and increasing prevalence of mental health challenges in the correctional system. The role of PMHN as advocate, educator and care provider in correctional systems will be discussed. Strategies for positive partnerships and program development to address unmet MH needs will be presented.
Presenter: Brenda Kucirka, PhD, PMHCNS-BC, CNE
In Case of Fire: Conceptualization of and Response to Problematic Firesetting – RN, APRN
The presentation introduces participants to a wealth of up-to-date clinical data and current theories of intentional, problematic firesetting. Features associated with difficulties managing this patient population and challenges for managing intentional firesetting in institutional settings will be discussed, facilitated by data, case presentations, and participant elicited examples.
Presenters: Alina Z. Levine, Psy.D.; Kristen Kichefski, MSN, MBA, RN-BC
2033: Undergraduate Education
3:30pm – 4:15pm Pacific
Trigger Warnings about Psychiatric-Mental Health Course Content for Undergraduate Students: The Evidence, Practices, Recommendations – RN
This presentation tackles and clarifies the topic of trigger warnings in nursing education by summarizing research findings about trigger warnings in collegiate academia, explaining how PMH nursing instructors use trigger warnings in didactic and clinical settings, and presenting educators’ views about trigger warnings. Recommendations about providing warnings will be discussed.
Presenter: Melissa Neathery, PhD, RN, CNE
The Psychiatric Nurse as Teacher-Scholar: Community Engagement with a Homeless Veteran Residential Rehabilitation Program – RN, APRN
This presentation shows how the Boyer model of scholarship can be utilized in undergraduate psychiatric nursing education to the benefit of both faculty and students. The case of a needs assessment study of a homeless veteran residential rehabilitation program is used to exemplify community-engaged teacher-scholarship.
Presenter: Rachel H. Adler, PhD, APRN, PMHNP-B
2034: Self Care
3:30pm – 4:15pm Pacific
A Call to Action: Caring for Ourselves and for Our Students – RN, APRN
This presentation will highlight the journey of evaluating and promoting a culture of health and well-being in a private Midwestern school of nursing. A comparison of outcomes between student and faculty perceptions were explored.
Presenters: Sherry McConnell, MSN, RN C-EFM; Andrea Kwasky, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC; Sonya Kowalski, DNP, APRN, ACNS-BC; Barb Ciotta, MSN, RN CNE-CL
Preparing Nurses to Activate Self-Care: What We Need – RN, APRN
This presentation describes the implementation of an innovative strategy in a BSN psychiatric course that educates and supports nursing students as they activate their chosen self-care. With AACN’s recently approved new Essentials, this strategy continues the integration of Domain 10: Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development.
Presenters: Susan Lally, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC; Alexis Spence, MSN, RN, NCSN
2035: Practice
3:30pm – 4:15pm Pacific
Minority Mental Health and Well-being: Effects of Implicit Bias and Methods to Change the Trajectory – RN
This energetic and interactive session presents an opportunity to educate, discuss, and prioritize processes to improve mental health perspectives and outcomes for minorities. Participants will leave with increased empathy and a foundation for providing minorities skills/tools to improve mental health outcomes.
Presenters: Kimberly A. Barnes-Ayers, BSN, MAEd, RN-BC; Jennifer Newsome, RN-BC BSN; Renwick Slaughter, RN-BC
Healing from the Effects of Two Pandemics: COVID-19 and Historical Racism: A Path to Post-trauma Recovery and Meaning-making – RN, APRN
This presentation will focus on concepts of collective trauma and ambiguous loss from two pandemics, COVID-19 and systemic racism, and the profound impact on the mental health and well-being of nurses. Insights will be shared about individual and collective responses that may mitigate long-term negative psychological effects such as post-trauma growth and meaning-making.
Presenter: Barbara Peterson, PhD, PMHCNS, APRN
2036: Research
3:30pm – 4:15pm Pacific
Suicide Prevention in the Emergency Department: Developing the SecUrgence Protocol – RN
This presentation introduces the SecUrgence Protocol, a clinical protocol that intends to assess and provide care for individuals at risk of suicide that present themselves to the ED. The research process behind the development of this protocol as well as key findings and recommendations for clinical practice will be presented.
Presenter: Jessica Rassy, PhD
Developing an Educational Framework for Improving Intervention Adherence and PTSD Outcomes of a Mindfulness App for College Student Military Veterans: A Feasibility Study – RN, APRN
This presentation presents the results of the first phase of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) study – a feasibility study aimed at refining a mindfulness app for PTSD. The presentation will demonstrate how qualitative results from a pilot study can be integrated into a prospective RCT for improving adherence.
Presenter: Andrew Thomas Reyes, PhD, RN
2037: Veterans
3:30pm – 4:15pm Pacific
PTSD and Sleep Disturbance: A Comprehensive Treatment Approach for Veterans – RN, APRN
This presentation describes the complexities involved in treating veterans with PTSD and sleep disturbance, including the high rates of co-occurring insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea. It reviews relevant literature about potential treatment options for this population. A comprehensive and evidence-based screening and treatment protocol is introduced as a potential approach.
Presenter: Gia Santoro, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC
Implementing Measurement-Based Care in a Veterans Affairs Tobacco Recovery Clinic – RN, APRN
This presentation will describe a PMHNP-led evidence-based practice process that increased clinician attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and behavioral intention toward measurement-based care, as well as increased use of the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence within a tobacco recovery clinic.
Presenter: Jennifer Jones, DNP, PMHNP-BC, CARN-AP