Paving New Ground: Peer Providers Working in Inpatient Settings
A panel of peer providers will describe their unique and specialized positions providing peer support in inpatient and community settings. Information presented at this session will be invaluable to nurses as they begin to develop similar collaborative and partnership relationships with peer providers in their own clinical environments.
Speakers: Deni Cohodas; Mary Jensen RN, MA; Holly Dixon, MSW
Disclosures: The speakers have no conflicts of interest to disclose. The activity planners have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Target Audience: RN, APRN
Session Objectives
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:
1. To recognize the significance and value of peer delivered services.
2. Understand how peer services contribute to a more recovery oriented environment.
3. Develop beginning strategies for involving peers in their own settings.
Continuing Nursing Education
1.25 Contact Hour, upon completion of an evaluation. Certificate generated online.
The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Originally Presented
Thursday, October 14th: 9:15-10:30am
APNA 24th Annual Conference
Kentucky International Convention Center
Louisville, Kentucky
The contact hours for this session expire: December 31, 2013