Invisible Traumatic Injuries: Caring for Those Surviving Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Nurses are facing a new challenge: providing patient-centered care to individuals with comorbid medical and behavioral health diagnoses in hospital settings. This foundational session aims to provide nurses with an understanding of current trends while providing strategies to help nurses grow in their practice and improve the quality of care provided to patient's surviving mental illness and substance abuse—all from the perspective of treating a population in crisis with trauma-informed care.

Objectives

Describe the foundations of traumainformed care, and how it guides the provision of holistic nursing care.
Explain current trends in the prevalence of substance use disorder, severe mental illness and suicide.
Identify strategies to improve the quality of care provided to patients with behavioral health and/or substance use disorders.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Criteria for Awarding Contact Hours

Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.

Accreditation

American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for {contactHours} contact hours.

Disclosures

The Nurse Planner has determined that no individuals with the ability to control content of this activity have relevant relationships with ineligible companies.

Activities with pharmacotherapeutic credit are to assist the APRN in fulfilling their education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.

Refund Policy

Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.