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Caring for the Whole Person: Nurturing Behavioral Health & Psychosocial Well-Being

Session Title: Psychotropic Medications: Best Practices in LTC

Presentation Date: September 18, 2024

Presented By:

  • Christine Twombly, RN-BC, RAC-MT, RAC-MTA, HCRM, CHC

Course Description:

Psychotropic medications include any drug that affects brain activities associated with mental processes and behaviors.  The use of psychotropic medications in LTC have implications on resident quality of life and survey regulatory outcomes.  This session provides an overview of classifications of psychotropic medications commonly prescribed in LTC and strategies to monitor their appropriate use to improve quality and maintain regulatory compliance. The course emphasizes the importance of an interdisciplinary, holistic approach to develop processes for monitoring the use of psychotropic medications, promoting gradual dose reductions, and preventing the inappropriate use of psychotropic medications.

Learning Objectives

  1. Understand the types of psychotropic medication commonly used in LTC
  2. Examine the role of the interdisciplinary team, including the pharmacist and physician, in maintaining regulatory compliance with prescribing psychotropic medications and implementing gradual dose reductions.
  3. Explore strategies for creating personalized care plans that address both non-pharmacological interventions for managing behaviors and monitoring target behavior and adverse effect of the medications.

Continuing Education Information:

Nurses:  The Kansas Healthcare Association is approved as a provider of continuing nursing education by the Kansas State Board of Nursing.  This offering is approved for 1.0 contact hour applicable for RN and LPN relicensure (KSBN LT0030-0338)

Administrators: This course is approved for 1.0 continuing education credit hours for Kansas licensed adult care home administrators by the Kansas Department Aging and Disability Services.  KDADS Health Occupations Credentialing sponsorship number LTS-A0001.

Operators:  This course offering is approved for 1.0 continuing education clock hour for the Kansas registered operators in the core area of Resident Care by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services. KDADS Health Occupations Credentialing Approved Sponsorship number: LTS-A0001.

Social Workers: This course is approved for 1.0 hour of continuing education hours for Kansas licensed Social Workers by the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board.  Approval number: 17-006.

Dietitians: This course is approved for up to 1.0 continuing education clock hours for Kansas Licensed Dietitians by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services. KDADs Health Occupations Credentialing Approved Sponsorship Number: LTS-A0002.

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