Acute Psychiatric Crisis: Assessment and Intervention for ED Professionals

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Are you a healthcare provider in an Emergency Department interacting with patients with challenging behaviors? Mental health diagnosis and dangerous substance use are serious health issues that often go undetected and present behavioral challenges in acute care settings. Join the expert Faculty of Villanova University M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing for this full day program focused on acquiring screening, assessment, and management skills of common behaviors exhibited by patients during an acute psychiatric crisis. This workshop will provide participants the necessary skills to communicate and care for patients in a thoughtful, compassionate and professional manner. The primary goal will be to address potential aggressive and threatening behaviors that often present during psychiatric crises. All participants will be given tools to gain confidence in completing a suicide assessment and utilizing communication techniques for de-escalation. Each participant will have the opportunity to experience a brief simulation of psychosis. The evidence-based Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) approach to identifying patients who use alcohol and other drugs will also be demonstrated.

Join other healthcare providers for this powerful full day program and develop confidence interacting and caring for patients in Acute Psychiatric Crisis.