National Suicide Prevention Month & National Recovery Month

Free Contact Hours for APNA Members through October 10:

Planning, Designing, and Creating a Safe Environment that Decreases Stigma and Facilitates Recovery: How a Project to Create an Inpatient Unit Resulted in a State-of-the-art Setting that Received National Recognition for Recovery-oriented Design
Building a new hospital and moving an inpatient psychiatric unit is no small challenge. Presenters show a step-by-step approach to creatively designing and moving an inpatient unit that decreases the stigma of mental health care by providing a recovery-oriented space for healing that prioritizes safety.
For RN, APRN; 0.75 contact hours

Nurses in Peril: The Interconnectedness of Substance Use Disorder and Suicide Among Nurses
Explore the interconnectedness of SUD, job loss, and suicide, and innovative interventions for addressing SUD among nurses. Explore concepts such as the conspiracy of silence, shame, stigma, and moral failure that impede nurse recovery. Participants will identify PMH nursing strategies for healing through nurse peer support.
For RN, APRN; 0.75 contact hours

New & Coming Soon from APNA:

• Now available! SUICIDE PREVENTION CERTIFICATE PROGRAM: An updated, convenient, and interactive APNA Suicide Prevention Certificate Program is now available! The online, on-demand training reflects the most current evidence and best practices. This training will increase your confidence and competence in the nursing skills of suicide assessment, management, and prevention.
• COMING SOON: Population-focused modules are in development to supplement the certificate program and provide specific suicide prevention considerations and strategies.
• UPCOMING POSITION ON YOUTH SUICIDE PREVENTION: The APNA Youth Suicide Prevention Workgroup is working on an APNA position that holistically addresses the issue of youth suicide prevention and the role of the psychiatric-mental health nurse in it. APNA member and expert in suicide prevention and child & adolescent mental health Jamie Zelazny is chairing the group.

Build a strong foundation with these core resources:

• APNA Essential Competencies for psychiatric registered nurses working in hospital settings as a guide for practice, based on extant research literature (both qualitative and quantitative) relevant to assessment and management of hospitalized patients admitted to a psychiatric setting.
• APNA MSUD Training – 9 modules with content for nurses offering medication — including buprenorphine — for persons with substance use disorders.
• Words Matter: Recovery Oriented Language Guide includes contemporary language use, diversity inclusive language and other topics, including recovery language usage in the written word.

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.