Crises are never scheduled, convenient or easy. But they do happen, and you will face them. Imagine if you could come to work knowing that you and your co-workers would be able to confidently manage the most unpredictable and dangerous patient behaviors. In one career-changing day, you can learn the latest, safest, and best practices for the psychiatric emergencies that can take place in your non-psychiatric work setting.
Brian Fonnesbeck, an expert Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist/Nurse, understands well the types of challenges that healthcare professionals encounter in the emergency department, the med/surg floor, long-term care… in practically all settings/departments, there are opportunities for patient and family interactions to suddenly go frighteningly wrong.
You've heard the horrific stories… and perhaps have a few of your own!
Brian will provide you with actual solutions to all these challenges! Crisis prevention skills, medication updates, how to protect your own safety, effective verbal interventions and the emerging new trends to get ready for.
Full of practical tools and tips, this live webcast will teach you how to make crisis situations more manageable, overcome your worries and improve your readiness to handle psychiatric emergencies related to violence, alcohol/substance abuse, suicide risk, dementia, agitation… and more!
You already know that these high-risk situations open up the possibility of legal risk… the growing risks are taking place due to short staffing, inadequate training, outdated policies, and sometimes just honest mistakes made during extremely stressful and challenging moments.
Confidently walk away with new insights to be able to protect your own safety, your license, your liability risk… and ultimately explore strategies that will allow you to more effectively provide the very best care to patients experiencing a psychiatric emergency.
NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation).
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PESI, Inc. is approved by the California Psychological Association to provide continuing education for psychologists. Provider #PES010. PESI maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. PESI is offering this activity for 3.25 hours of continuing education credit. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
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This live activity consists of 195 hours of continuing education instruction and is related to the practice of psychology.
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| Manual (4.6 MB) | 58 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Susan D. Rich, MD, MPH is an adult and child/adolescent psychiatrist specializing in diagnosis and treatment of patients with neuropsychiatric and trauma histories. As a clinician in private practice in a home office since 2006, Dr. Rich has learned to rapidly assess emergency psychiatric situations, de-escalate patients who are emotionally dysregulated, and intervene in heated disputes between family members and patients. She earned a Doctorate of Medicine from the University of North Carolina, completed residency training in psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center, and a 2-year child/adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Children’s National Medical Center. Additionally, Susan is founder of a nonprofit, author of several journal articles, a book, and a blog as well as being an international speaker at professional psychiatric conferences and medical center grand rounds.
For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.
Please note: There will be a lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.
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