Mini Concurrent Sessions | 0.75 Contact Hours
3:30PM – 4:15PM Eastern
2:30PM CT | 12:30PM PT
2031: Resilience
3:30pm – 4:15pm Eastern
Supporting Nurse Practitioner Wellbeing at Work: Exploring the role of advanced practice psychiatric-mental health nurses in burnout prevention – APRN
Findings from a qualitative study of nurse practitioner burnout will be presented within a social ecological framework. Solutions for wellbeing at work and the unique skills of PMH-APRNs are explored.
Presenter: Rosalind de Lisser, PhD(c), FNP, PMHNP
Brief Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Training for Nurses – RN APRN
This presentation explores how nurses integrate mindfulness into their work lives, while focusing specifically on the barriers to implementation, integration, and sustainability.
Presenter: Rachel Allen, PhD, RN, CRNP, PMHNP-BC
2032: Culture
3:30pm – 4:15pm Eastern
Student, Staff, and Faculty Perceptions of Marginalization in Higher Education – RN APRN
This presentation reviews the findings of a multi-site research projected aim at exploring marginalization in rural and urban universities, including both quantitative and qualitative data. The participant will leave with a better understanding of the importance of engaging all participants in higher education in diversity, equity, and inclusion work.
Presenter: Melissa Copenhaver, DNP, MS, FNP-C, LMSW, PMH-BC, CNE
Enhancing Cultural Humility Using the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview: Study Protocol – APRN
This presentation provides an overview of the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview and the utility to advanced practice nurses. Additionally, there will be an exploration of training techniques for PMHNP students.
Presenters: Brandee J. Madden, DNP, PMHNP-BC; LeTizia B. Smith, DNP, PMHNP-BC
2033: Practice
3:30pm – 4:15pm Eastern
Are We Keeping Patients in the Dark About Dark Therapy? – RN APRN
This presentation is an exploration of evidence surrounding the use of dark therapy and blue light blocking interventions for the treatment of mania. Psychiatric-mental health nurses will be enlightened about dark therapy and blue light blocking techniques as evidence-based practice in the care of patients with bipolar disorder.
Presenter: Katlin Bussy, PMHNP-BC, RN-BC, MS
Connecting How Mindfulness Practices Impact Sleep Disturbance – RN APRN
Sleep is impossible in states of arousal with self-critical and ruminating thoughts. An integrative model based on the etiology of sleep disturbance and application of mindfulness processes and practice can reduce arousal, improve awareness, acceptance of the present moment, and attentional control with beneficial effects on sleep disturbance.
Presenter: Joanne DeSanto Iennaco, PhD, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN
Available to virtual livestream attendees.
2034: Graduate Education
3:30pm – 4:15pm Eastern
Peer Assisted Learning and Simulation: A New Experience for PMHNP Students – RN APRN
This presentation introduces a novel way of preparing PMHNP students to assess, diagnose, and treat patients in the clinical setting. By combining peer-assisted learning and simulation, students improve their understanding of numerous mental health conditions via presenting and participating in student-led simulation activities.
Presenters: Andrew Makowski, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC; Holly Gray, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC; Julie Perry, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC
Creating Clinical Simulations of Standardized Student Patient Actors for Learning Psychotherapy Assessment and Documentation in an Electronic Health Record via Telehealth – RN APRN
This presentation introduces an innovative approach to preparing psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner students via telehealth in psychotherapy. Nurse educators will be armed with the tools necessary to formulate an evidence-based, efficient, telehealth model that allows for enriched student assessment and documentation.
Presenters: Marie Smith-East, PhD, DNP, PMHNP-BC, EMT-B; Bethanie Simmons-Becil, DNP, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, APHN-BC
2035: Violence Prevention
3:30pm – 4:15pm Eastern
Implementation of a Workplace Violence Prevention Program Across the Health Care System: A Strategic Approach to Enhance Organizational Safety – RN APRN
This presentation provides an overview of a strategic approach used by a health care system to implement a comprehensive and coordinated approach to address workplace violence across all care settings. By attending this presentation, participants will leave with strategies to address the rising incidence of workplace violence and injury.
Presenter: Kelly Bryant, MS, BSN, NPD-BC, NEA-BC
Predictability of Dynamic Appraisal of Situational Aggression-Inpatient Version (DASA-IV) Assessment in Adults on Medical Surgical Units – RN
Workplace violence persists in health care with nurses reporting physical (44%) and verbal (68%) abuse from aggressive patients causing emotional stress and lost workdays. The DASA-IV was developed to measure risk for aggression in patients with behavioral health conditions in psychiatric and emergency department settings. However, DASA-IV has not been validated with adult patients admitted to medical-surgical settings. This multi-site study used a case-control design. Retrospective medical record review of adult patients admitted to medical-surgical units within a health system was conducted. DASA-IV scores were extracted to assess changes in risk for aggression, defined as physical or verbal acts against objects, patients, or staff. Demographic data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) and area under the curve (AUC) correlated DASA-IV scores with aggressive events.
Presenters: Suzanne Gervase, MSN, RN, CEN, PMH-BC; Heather Shirk, MSN RN BC
Available to virtual livestream attendees.
2036: Trauma
3:30pm – 4:15pm Eastern
PTSD & Chronic Pain – Understanding Associative Relationship to Optimize Prescriptive Practices – APRN
This presentation will introduce pathophysiological processes and theoretical models describing the intersection between PTSD and chronic pain to illustrate overlapping mechanisms and bi-directional reinforcing relationship. By introducing current evidence-based practices and identifying gaps in care, the information presented aims to reduce stigma and increase access to care for this vulnerable population.
Presenter: Daniella Sadeh, MSN, PMHNP-BC
Women’s Self-Defense Training, Trauma, PTSD Symptoms, and Resilience – RN APRN
This presentation discusses study findings that explored associations between self-defense training, trauma exposure, PTSD symptoms, and resilience. Study results indicated self-defense training has the potential to significantly decrease PTSD symptoms and improve resilience. Self-defense training may be a promising intervention to improve resilience and decrease PTSD symptoms in women.
Presenter: Ashlyn Johnson, DNP, APRN-CNP, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC, CNE
2037: Women’s Health
3:30pm – 4:15pm Eastern
Promoting Mental Health by Motivational Interviewing in Females from Pre-conception Through Interpregnancy with Self-Care Strategies – RN APRN
This presentation educates nurses on motivational interviewing techniques to promote positive self-care behaviors in the reproductive years of life to improve physical and mental health outcomes and decrease stress for themselves, their children, and their families. Specific examples include diet and physical activity, reduction of substances, and mindfulness/meditation.
Presenters: Shannon Linder, DNP, APRN-CNP, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC; Barbara J. Warren, PhD, RN, APRN, PMH-BC, FNAP, FAAN
An Educational Intervention to Increase Psychotropic Medication Adherence in Pregnant and Postpartum Women Diagnosed with Depressive and Anxiety Disorders – RN APRN
This presentation discusses a DNP project which sought to employ ACOG (American College of Gynecologists) guidelines on Psychiatric Medication Use During Pregnancy (2008) to provide a 15-minute psychotropic medication education intervention within an established virtual group therapy program for pregnant and post-partum women to help increase psychiatric medication adherence.
Presenter: Alaina Duncan, DNP, PMHNP-BC
Why I.D.E.A.S. matter to Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing – 
Virtual Livestream Experience