What You'll Learn...
After completing simple, self-paced modules, you'll deliver enhanced patient care for some of the most vulnerable patients that come through your office.
Managing Challenging Patient Behaviors: 101 De-escalation Strategies for Healthcare Professionals
Sonata Bohen, MSN, ARNP, CS, NEI Master |
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Gain
practical tips and tools that you can use immediately when faced with challenging patient and family behaviours. You'll learn strategies to:
- De-escalate acute crisis situations while maintaining patient and staff safety
- Help patients experiencing intense withdrawals, toxicity from substance use, and other medical crises
- Manage aggressive and violent behaviours, threats of serious harm, & other intense situations
- Improve your standard of care with patients diagnosed with severe mental health conditions
- Help patients that have unique risks associated with delirium, dementia, substance abuse, & developmental disabilities
Psychopharmacology of Trauma: Essential Training to Support Traumatized Patients
Stephanie L. Shafer, RN, MSN, ANP-BC, PMHNP-BC |
Learn the ins and outs of psychopharmacology in one of the most challenging and common clinical presentations, trauma, and its comorbidities.
What You Need to Know about Mental Health Trauma
- Types of trauma & clinical diagnoses
- Symptoms, assessment & maladaptive coping
- Development of trauma, influencing factors
- Know co-occurring disorders
The Foundation for Medication: Trauma and the brain
- Neurobiology of trauma
- Stress and the developing brain
- Personal narrative
- Science of perception
- Diagnostic Criteria for PTSD
- Affected pathways/Brain regions affected by stress & trauma
- Mechanisms
- Neurotransmitters and neurotransmission as it relates to medications used in trauma & comorbid conditions
- Serotonin, NE, DA, GABA, etc.
- Easy-to-follow charts of pathways
- Agonist spectrum
Medication: Adverse effects, Variations & More
- Antidepressants — SSRIs & more
- Anxiety medications
- Anxiolytics
- Mood stabilizers
- Antipsychotics
- Frequent manifestations of trauma and pharmacological treatments
- Sleep & nightmare medications
Conjunctive Therapies
- Self-care
- Care Teams & coordination
- Making appropriate referrals
- Non-pharmacological therapies, modalities & more
Challenging Geriatric Behaviors
Steven Atkinson, PA-C, MS |
Gain valuable insights into the
causes of challenging geriatric behaviours and learn innovative and practical intervention strategies to improve the care you provide to geriatric patients. You will learn strategies to manage challenging behaviours related to:
- Dementia
- Aggression
- Anxiety and depression
- Refusal of food and fluids
- Inappropriate sexual advances
