Veteran Mental Health - How a Nurse can Help.
Tracking # 20-774702
$15.00
What you'll learn
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Provide a demographic overview of current and former military members
- Describe the prevalence of various mental health issues among active duty military and veterans
- Identify barriers that may prevent veterans from seeking mental health care
- Describe why screening military personnel for mental health issues is so important
- Identify factors that put veterans at increased risk for mental health issues
- Describe the impact that mental health issues can have on veterans and their families
- Identify mental health treatment options available to veterans
- Identify issues that veterans and their families may face as they readjust and reintegrate following a deployment
- Identify mental health concerns that prevent a soldier from being deployed
- Describe symptoms indicating that a veteran may be suffering from a mental health issue
Course overview
This course is fully online, at-your-own-pace and reports to CE Broker. Military personnel face unique challenges as part of their service that can have long-term effects on their mental health as well as wide reaching effects on their family members. Military personnel serving in armed conflict face life threatening situations and the trauma of death and destruction on a daily basis.
Subject areas
This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.
Arkansas State Board of Nursing
Certified Nurse Midwife
Certified Nurse Practitioner
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Licensed Practical Nurse
Licensed Psychiatric Technician Nurse
Registered Nurse
Registered Nurse Practitioner
District of Columbia Board of Nursing
Certified Nurse Midwife
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Licensed Practical Nurse
Nurse Practitioner
Registered Nurse
Registered Nurse Anesthetist
Florida Board of Nursing
Licensed Practical Nurse
Registered Nurse
Florida Board of Nursing - Certified Nursing Assistants
Certified Nursing Assistant
Georgia Board of Nursing
Licensed Practical Nurse
Registered Professional Nurse
Michigan Board of Nursing
Licensed Practical Nurse
Licensed Practical Nurse Special Volunteer
Registered Nurse
Registered Nurse Special Volunteer
Mississippi Board of Nursing
Licensed Practical Nurse
Registered Nurse
New Mexico Board of Nursing
Certified Nurse Practitioner
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Licensed Practical Nurse
Registered Nurse
North Dakota Board of Nursing
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
Licensed Practical Nurse
Registered Nurse
South Carolina Board of Nursing
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
Licensed Practical Nurse
Registered Nurse
West Virginia Board of Registered Nurses
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
Registered Nurse
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Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Provide a demographic overview of current and former military members
- Describe the prevalence of various mental health issues among active duty military and veterans
- Identify barriers that may prevent veterans from seeking mental health care
- Describe why screening military personnel for mental health issues is so important
- Identify factors that put veterans at increased risk for mental health issues
- Describe the impact that mental health issues can have on veterans and their families
- Identify mental health treatment options available to veterans
- Identify issues that veterans and their families may face as they readjust and reintegrate following a deployment
- Identify mental health concerns that prevent a soldier from being deployed
- Describe symptoms indicating that a veteran may be suffering from a mental health issue
It is the policy of Enjoyable Education not to accept any commercial support for any course. Enjoyable Education’s courses can be taken at-your-own-pace, online from any device and they report to CE Broker within 24 hours.
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