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Mental Health Topics for School Nurses

Program Date & Time:
August 29, 2024 | Self-paced
Modality:
  • Online module
Registration Fee:
Free
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Additional Details
Instructional Hours:
10.50
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Description
School nurses often feel like they lack the knowledge and skills necessary to address mental health issues in their student population. Mental health diagnoses and symptoms are often comorbid with other diagnoses, so the school nurse is in the critical role of possibly being the student's only healthcare professional contact. It is a priority to know how to help students develop coping skills and resilience and to connect them and their families to school and community resources. This series seeks to close knowledge gaps and relate mental health topics to the educational setting for nurses, helping students optimize their school experience.

Keywords: Mental Health, Youth mental health, crisis, MTSS, SBIRT, Autism, Suicide, Suicide Prevention, School Nurse, Substance use, Substance misuse disorder, NSSI, Anxiety

Objectives

At the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Explain how the multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) framework can be used to implement social-emotional learning programs, improve the health office environment, and drive overall system improvements.
  • Discuss autism as a spectrum disorder.
  • Describe the role of School Nurses in suicide prevention.
  • Identify effective strategies to communicate with students who engage in non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI).
  • Recognize the signs of hyperarousal and dissociative stress responses and how to engage in co-regulation with students in a stress response.
  • Analyze the risk factors for substance misuse and mental health issues among youth, as well as how schools can implement SBIRT for prevention and intervention.
Disclosures
Disclosure(s) Planners, faculty, and content specialists must disclose any relationship(s) with ineligible companies and will inform the audience of any such disclosures before the beginning of the presentation. To ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all programs, the planners/faculty must make full disclosure indicating any relationship with a company whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Commercial Support Participants will be made aware of any commercial support associated with the program. Non-Endorsement of Products Neither Lowcountry AHEC nor the American Nurses Credentialing Center endorses or approves any products that may be associated with this continuing education activity. References Some references cited for speaker presentations may need subscription or membership status to access.
Credits Available
  • Nurses
    SC Nurses Association
    Credit Statement

    Lowcountry AHEC (Area Health Education Center) is approved with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by South Carolina Nurses Association an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Upon successful completion of this program, attendees will receive 10.5 contact hours.

  • All Other Participants
    Area Health Education Consortium
    Credit Statement
    This program provides 1.05 CEUs by Lowcountry AHEC and meets South Carolina AHEC Best Practice Standards.
Locations/Participation Options
  • Online Module
Contact(s)

If you have questions about the credits, location/video conference information, or any other details specific to this particular program, please reach out to the contact(s) below:

  • Name:
    Jasmine Douglas
    Phone:
    843-539-2167
    Email:
    douglasj@lcahec.com
If you have questions related to registering or using the AHEC Learning Portal, please contact ofte@musc.edu.

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