From Misdiagnosis to Treatment Failures: Nursing Strategies to Mitigate the Burden of Bipolar Depression, with Barbara J. Limandri, PhD, APRN, BC; Julie A. Carbray, PhD, APN, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC; and Eric C. Arauz, MA, MLER

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From Misdiagnosis to Treatment Failures: Nursing Strategies to Mitigate the Burden of Bipolar Depression, with Barbara J. Limandri, PhD, APRN, BC; Julie A. Carbray, PhD, APN, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC; and Eric C. Arauz, MA, MLER

Bipolar Depression: Clinical Pearls from the Lived Experience
Eric C. Arauz, MA, MLER

Release Date: December 22, 2014

Expiration Date: December 21, 2015 (THIS ACTIVITY IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR CREDIT)

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This Webcast is an excerpt from a satellite symposium held at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association 27th Annual Conference in October 2013. This symposium in its entirety was planned and developed by Barbara J. Limandri, PhD, APRN, BC; Julie A. Carbray, PhD, APN, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC; and Eric C. Arauz, MA, MLER. This educational activity provides the unique perspective of the lived experience of bipolar disorder. From the mental health consumer’s personal experience, participants will better understand:
· Management strategies for bipolar depression that consider the consumer perspective
· The impact of a working alliance on achieving and sustaining recovery
· The role of the psychiatric mental health (PMH) nurse in optimizing recovery-based
outcomes in bipolar depression

Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this educational activity, participants should be able to:
· Assess the role of the psychiatric mental health nurse in facilitating recovery-based
outcomes in persons with bipolar depression
· Evaluate strategies to support consumers with bipolar depression in achieving and
sustaining recovery

Faculty
Eric C. Arauz, MA, MLER Arauz Inspirational Enterprises East Brunswick, NJ

Julie A. Carbray, PhD, APN, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Nursing
Administrative Director, Pediatric Mood Disorder Clinic
Department of Psychiatry
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL

Barbara J. Limandri, PhD, APRN, BC
Professor of Nursing
Linfield College
The Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing
Portland, OR

Faculty Biographies

Julie A. Carbray, PhD, APN, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC (Activity Chair)

Julie A. Carbray, PhD, APN, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Nursing, at The Institute for Juvenile Research and College of Nursing; a Pediatric Mood Disorder Specialist/Clinician; and the Administrative Director of the Pediatric Mood Disorder Clinic at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Dr Carbray earned her doctorate in child psychiatric nursing and her master’s degree in nursing from Rush University in Chicago. Her bachelor’s degree in nursing was earned from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. She is a board-certified Clinical Nurse Specialist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing and a board-certified Family Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner.

Dr Carbray is a reviewer for the Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and is a member of the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, and Association of Psychiatric Nurses, the latter for whom she chairs the Clinical Psychopharmacology Institute Planning Committee. She is currently a research clinician for 3 National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) research studies and has previously been principal or co-investigator of numerous NIMH-sponsored and other clinical trials of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents. Dr Carbray has authored dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles and several book chapters, and has presented both nationally and internationally.

Eric C. Arauz, MA, MLER

Eric C. Arauz, MA, MLER, is the author of An American’s Resurrection, an international inspirational speaker and trainer, and an adjunct instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Rutgers/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. In 2009, Mr Arauz won the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) “Voice Award,” and in 2012, was a SAMHSA “Voice Award” Fellow. He is President of Arauz Inspirational Enterprises (AIE) in East Brunswick, New Jersey, serves as Vice Chairman of the New Jersey Governor’s Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse’s Opiate/Heroin Task Force, and is a member of the American Association of Suicidology.

Mr Arauz is a United States Navy veteran who served in Operation Desert Storm. He earned his bachelor’s degree in American Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and his master’s degree in Labor and Employment Relations at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations. Currently Mr Arauz is working with the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) as a faculty member on the SAMHSA 5-year “Recovery to Practice” grant. Additionally, he serves on the APNA national work group that is developing the first set of national suicide prevention competencies for inpatient psychiatric nurses. Most recently he published an article in the Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and keynoted the 2013 Psychiatric and Mental Health Congress in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Barbara J. Limandri, PhD, APRN, BC

Barbara J. Limandri, PhD, APRN, BC, is Professor of Nursing at Linfield College School of Nursing in Portland, Oregon, and a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner in the same city. Dr Limandri earned her doctorate from the University of California San Francisco, School of Nursing. She completed her master’s degree in nursing at The Catholic University of America, Department of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, in Washington, DC, and earned her bachelor of science in nursing from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing in Richmond.

Dr Limandri currently serves as chairperson for the Continuing Education Subcommittee of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association’s (APNA) Education Steering Committee. She has been involved in education of her peers for numerous years, chairing both the Faculty Development Committee and the Quality Improvement Committee at Linfield College School of Nursing; and serving on the Test Development Committee, Research Council, and Advanced Practice Committee of APNA. She has been an invited presenter, speaker, or co-presenter at more than a dozen national conferences on psychiatric nursing and psychopharmacology. Dr Limandri belongs to the national APNA and its Oregon chapter.

Disclosures Statements

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) requires instructors, planners, managers and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose any real or apparent conflict of interest they may have as related to the content of this activity. All identified conflicts of interest are thoroughly vetted by APNA for fair balance, scientific objectivity of studies mentioned in the materials or used as the basis for content, and appropriateness of patient care recommendations.

The faculty reported the following financial relationships or relationships to products or devices they or their spouse/life partner have with commercial interests related to the content of this CE activity:

Eric C. Arauz, MA, MLER, has disclosed that he does not have any relevant financial relationships specific to the subject matter of the content of the activity.

Julie A. Carbray, PhD, APN, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC, has disclosed that she does not have any relevant financial relationships specific to the subject matter of the content of the activity.

Barbara J. Limandri, PhD, APRN, BC, has disclosed that she does not have any relevant financial relationships specific to the subject matter of the content of the activity.

The planners and managers reported the following financial relationships or relationships to products or devices they or their spouse/life partner have with commercial interests related to the content of this CE activity:

The following APNA staff serve as clinical content reviewers and/or participate in planning CE activities in a manner that may affect content: Patricia Black, PhD, RN; Deborah Hobbs, PhD, RN, hereby state that they or their spouse do not have any financial relationships with any commercial interests related to the content of this CE activity of any amount during the past 12 months.

The following Spire Learning staff serve as clinical content reviewers and/or participate in planning CME/CE activities in a manner that may affect content: Kashemi D. Rorie, PhD, Christine Kocienda, and Jeanne Prater hereby state that they do not have any financial relationships or relationships to products or devices with any commercial interests related to the content of this CE activity of any amount during the past 12 months. The spouse of Jeanne Prater is an employee of Novo Nordisk and stockholder of Johnson & Johnson.

Target Audience

Psychiatric mental health nurses
Psychiatric nurse practitioners
Psychiatric case managers

Accreditation

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

This enduring activity is approved for 0.5 continuing nursing education contact hours by the American Psychiatric Nurses Association.

METHOD OF PARTICIPATION

There is no fee for participating and receiving CE credit for this enduring activity, which should take approximately 30 minutes to complete. If you wish to receive full credit for participating in this activity, you must view the online activity and complete the online evaluation with a passing score on the posttest. We cannot award credit unless all steps are completed.

This educational activity is co-provided by the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and Spire Learning.

This activity is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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