COURSE INFORMATION
Quick and correct thinking is the difference between life and death in the emergency department. Healthcare professionals from staff to nurses to physicians need to make correct diagnosis and assessments under the duress of unpredictable, sometimes aggressive, and life altering circumstances. They must be the calm in the storm and with discipline perform their duties to save lives. This course looks at the numerous assessments for both physical and psychiatric triage and helps orientate the student to the proper methods and procedures to follow for a variety of dangerous and life-threatening situations. Situations that not only involve physical injury requiring medical care, but also situations that involve suicidal patients, intoxicated patients, overdosing patients, confused patients, aggressive patients, as well as patients of different ages, or background. In addition, this course reviews the many ethical, legal, and moral obligations an ED health professional must employ to properly conduct oneself.
Course Code: TH 530. Contact hours of Education: 30.
Instructor/Course Author: Mark Moran, M.A.
Email: Mdmoran7@yahoo.com
Resume: access here
TIME FRAME: You are allotted two years from the date of enrollment, to complete all of the courses required in the Spiritual Counseling- Christian Focused program. There are no set time-frames, other than the two year allotted time. If you do not complete the course within the two-year time-frame, you will be removed from the course and an “incomplete” will be recorded for you in our records. Also, if you would like to complete the course after this two-year expiration time, you would need to register and pay the course tuition fee again.
TEXTBOOKS: There is one (1) required textbook for this course.
Acute Psychiatric Emergencies: A Practical Approach 2nd Edition, Buchanan, M. & Longson, D. (Ed) (2025).
Link to Purchase on Amazon.com: click here
GRADING: You must achieve a passing score of at least 70% to complete this course and receive the 30 hours of awarded continuing education credit. There are no letter grades assigned. You will receive notice of your total % score. Those who score below the minimum of 70% will be contacted by the American Institute of Health Care Professionals, Inc. and options for completing additional course work to achieve a passing score will be presented.
BOARD APPROVALS:
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is an Approved Provider for Continuing Education by the South Carolina Professional Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists and Psycho-Educational Specialists licensing board, Provider # 4637. Access information
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals (The Provider) is approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses, Provider number # CEP 15595 for 30 Contact Hours.
This course, which is approved by the Florida State Board Of Nursing (CE Provider # 50-11975) also has the following Board of Nursing Approvals, for 30 contact hours of CE
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Arkansas Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Georgia Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the South Carolina Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Professional Registered Nurses. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the New Mexico Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
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ONLINE CLASSROOM RESOURCES AND TOOLS
* Examination Access: there is link to take you right to the online examination program where you can print out your examination and work with it. All examinations are formatted as “open book” tests. When you are ready, you can access the exam program at anytime and click in your responses to the questions. Full information is provided in the online classrooms.
* Student Resource Center: there is a link for access to a web page “Student Resource Center.” The Resource Center provides for easy access to all of our policies/procedures and additional information regarding applying for certification. We also have many links to many outside reference sites, such as online libraries that you may freely access.
* Online Evaluation: there is a link in the classroom where you may access the course evaluation. All students completing a course, must, without exception, complete the course evaluation.
* Faculty Access Information: you will have access to your instructor’s online resume/biography, as well as your instructor’s specific contact information.
* Additional Learning Materials: some faculty have prepared additional “readings” and /or brief lecture notes to enhance your experience. All of these are available in the online classrooms.
COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Assess the needs of a patient from a psychiatric perspective in the ED
- Provide efficient and proper care in decisions for the needs of those in ED
- Secure a safe environment for the patient
- Communicate with staff for better efficiency and risk management
- Work better with psychiatric staff in the ED
- Maintain empathy and professionalism with the patient
- Adhere to legal standards of patient rights
- Manage critical situations with stronger leadership
- Reduce avoidable errors in the ED
- Understand the meanings of various assessment models
- Remember the use for ABCD and AEIO in initial assessment
- Recall the use of SMART for secondary assessment
- Identify the key elements of SLIPA in suicide prevention
- Utilize ASEPTIC in mental health examinations of patients in the ED
- Know the various mental issues faced in the ED
- Help the intoxicated patient
- Identify various symptoms of drug use
- Guide the confused patient
- Know the conditions of delirium
- De-escalate with the aggressive patient
- Enhance the patient experience within the ED
COURSE CONTENT:
A brief abstract of course content:
- Structured approach to acute psychiatric emergencies
- Primary unified assessment and immediate psychiatric management
- Mental state examination
- Commonly encountered psychiatric presentations
- The patient who has harmed himself
- Organic disturbances for behavioral disturbances
- The acutely intoxicated patient
- The aggressive patient
- Special considerations
- Legal aspects of emergency psychiatry
- Getting it right: non-technical skills
- The patient experience