Clinical Challenges and Psychopharmacology for Substance Use Disorders for Advanced Practice Nurses - 8 Contact Hours

Course overview

This eight-credit hour course is designed for both registered nurses and advanced practice nurses. Because of medical and psychiatric comorbidities, patients diagnosed with psychiatric disorders have complex prescription medication regimens. Since registered nurses are frontline providers, they are frequently responsible for educating patients about their medications. Therefore, it is important for nurses to have a basic understanding of psychiatric disorders and the psychotropic medications used to treat these disorders. For advanced practice nurses, this course is intended to support and enhance their knowledge of diagnosing psychiatric disorders and to increase their confidence for prescribing psychotropic medications to adult patients. In addition, this course addresses challenging clinical situations and strategies for appropriate interventions. Finally, realistic case studies are presented, with recommended treatment and management strategies in a discussion format.