3035: Improving Physical Health Care in Community Mental Health Centers: YOU WANT ME TO DO WHAT??
Collaborative project that demonstrates the development, implementation and sustainability efforts to provide integrated care for persons with co morbid physical and mental illness in Community Behavioral Health Centers. A PMHCNS-BC and two psychiatric NP graduate students provided onsite training, consultation and technical assistance for 3 common disorders. The project was sponsored by NAMI-Ohio and the State Department of Mental Health.
Speaker: Jeanne Clement, EdD, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN
Disclosures: This speaker has no conflict of interest, commercial support, or off-label use to disclose. The activity planners have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Session Length: 45 minutes
Target Audience: APRN
Session Objectives
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:
1. Describe strategies to improve care in the community for persons with comorbid physical and behavioral health disorders.
2. Describe specific guidelines for integrated care protocol development for non-nursing providers and other stakeholders in the community.
3. Discuss methods to sustain integrated care in agencies.
Key words: integrated care, comorbidity, CMHCs, interdisciplinary care, advanced practice
Continuing Nursing Education
0.75 contact hours. * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to the entire session, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post test. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. We cannot award credit unless all steps are completed.
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
Friday, October 21, 2011: 2:15pm – 3:00pm
Integrated Physical & Mental Health Care Track
APNA 25th Annual Conference
Anaheim, California
Release Date: April 12, 2012
The contact hours for this session expire: October 1, 2013