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Listen to peer-to-peer discussions about the challenges and opportunities facing nurse practitioners caring for patients with mental health concerns.

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Providing Interdisciplinary Care: Collaboration Toolkit

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Providing Interdisciplinary Care: Collaboration Toolkit

Interdisciplinary care for mental health patients is crucial in healthcare today. This peer-to-peer discussion reviews ways in which NPs can facilitate care between disciplines and providers to optimize patient care.

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Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Illness

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Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Illness

In this podcast, Chris Lambert, RN, FNP-C, and Pradeep Manudhane, MD, discuss stigma as an obstacle to the diagnosis of and treatment for mental illness and identify ways to approach bias in order to improve patient care.
Providing Interdisciplinary Care: Collaboration Toolkit

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Providing Interdisciplinary Care: Collaboration Toolkit

Interdisciplinary care for mental health patients is crucial in healthcare today. This peer-to-peer discussion reviews ways in which NPs can facilitate care between disciplines and providers to optimize patient care.
Helping Patients Navigate Inadequate Treatment Response in MDD

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Helping Patients Navigate Inadequate Treatment Response in MDD

Patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) often experience an inadequate response to antidepressant therapy. NPs play a vital role in educating patients about treatment response, including setting appropriate expectations for treatment and explaining the next steps should a patient not respond adequately. This peer exchange will teach you the skills to navigate this complex but common situation, including how to communicate about treatment response in MDD and how to navigate patients’ reactions should they experience a less-than-optimal response to medication.
Stigma as a Barrier to Proper Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis

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Stigma as a Barrier to Proper Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis

People with bipolar disorder often experience many forms of stigma, including stigma from healthcare providers and self-stigma. Nurse practitioners can benefit from learning how stigma can be a barrier to patients with bipolar disorder receiving appropriate diagnosis and care. This activity will dispel common myths about bipolar disorder and teach you how to correct these false beliefs to provide supportive, high-quality care for your patients.
Psych in Primary Care: Addressing Gaps in Mental Health Training for NPs

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Psych in Primary Care: Addressing Gaps in Mental Health Training for NPs

Primary care NPs may not always have a thorough background in mental health care. We will review important gaps in knowledge that primary care NPs may feel they have, including in diagnosing conditions such as major depressive disorder and bipolar I disorder, psychopharmacology, psychotropic medication classes, treatment algorithms, and drug-drug interactions. We also discuss motivational interviewing and its use in identifying symptoms of mental health conditions.
Understanding the Unique Training and Value of Nurse Practitioners

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Understanding the Unique Training and Value of Nurse Practitioners

In this podcast, Pradeep Manudhane, MD of Phoenix Rising Behavioral Health, interviews Jessica Giddens-Whelan, DNP, BA, APRN, FPMHNP-BC, RN-BC of Holon Inclusive Health System, to better understand the role NPs play in the primary care setting and explore areas of need which NPs could fill.
Using Patient Values to Determine Outcomes that Matter to Patients with Bipolar Disorder

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Using Patient Values to Determine Outcomes that Matter to Patients with Bipolar Disorder

Tina Matthews-Hayes, MSN, DNP, FNP, PMHNP and Jessica Whelan, DNP, MSN, FPMHNP discuss looking at a patient's perspective and identifying outcomes that are valued most by patients.

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