2010 Annual Activity Report

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2010 Annual Activity Report

On behalf of the APNA Board of Directors, I am pleased to provide you with this report on
APNA Activity. The report includes summaries of the key activities of your Association over
the past year. There are separate reports from the President, the Treasurer, and the Secretary.
The appendix includes summaries of Council, Task Force, Institute, and Committee activities; as
well as financial statements, web reports, and the APNA Strategic Plan. I hope that you find it
informative.
If you have any questions or feedback on the report, please send it care of APNA Executive
Director Nicholas Croce Jr., MS at [email protected].
Sincerely,

Mary D. Moller, DNP, APRN, PMHCNS-BC, CPRP, FAAN
President
American Psychiatric Nurses Association
President’s Report………………………T…A…B…L…E… …O…F… …C…O…N…T…E…N……T…S… ……………………………………………1
Treasurer’s Report……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………9
Secretary’s Report……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………11
Appendices
It is my pleasure to serve as presPidRenEt SoIf DAPENNA Tan’Sd tRo EprPesOenRtT m y report that covers the period
October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010. During the past year, we have continued to enjoy
a member growth. As noted in the Secretary’s Report APNA membership is now nearly 7000
active members. The Treasurer’s Report illustrates our continued financial growth and stability.
After having five years of losses in operations, we are posting a second successive year with
positive results from operations. The Treasurer’s Report contains a complete set of financial
statements.
I have organized this report to highlight the activities of APNA around the various groups or
audiences with whom we interact. These are members, nursing organizations, non-nursing
organizations or agencies that impact PMHN and our patients and finally a group for which all
of our efforts are ultimately geared to serve, consumers.
With regard to our members, the essence of an association is it ability to involve its
membership and provide a forum for the exchange of information. Our philosophy is that APNA
should be an “organization of professionals” not simply a “professional organization”. With the
introduction of the Member Bridge program we are providing such a forum. Member Bridge
enables our members to network and communicate freely on all matters of importance to
them. The Secretary’s Report contains more information on Member Bridge and other
communication methods including our website which are utilized by APNA.
APNA’s greatest strength is its members. The chapter system provides an opportunity for APNA
members to connect at the local level. There has been renewed interest in our chapter system.
Our system now has 35 individual chapters representing 41 of the 50 states. We’re working
with several states to increase this number with the goal of providing every member access to a
Chapter. The APNA website has information on each of our individual chapters, which you can
access at www.apna.org/Chapters. We extend our appreciation to each of the chapter
presidents and their governing boards for their leadership at the local level and for helping to
advance PMHN through their grass roots efforts and programs. Board Member-at-large, Gail
Stern of Pennsylvania, serves as liaison for the Chapters.
APNA Institutes, Councils, and Task Forces are actively carrying out work on behalf of
psychiatric-mental health nursing. We’re pleased that we have added several new councils.
The first is actually a revitalized council, the RN-PMH, with co-chairs Jolie Gordon-Browar of
California and Jim Shearer of Wyoming. The second is the Child-Adolescent Council that is
chaired by Sue Odegarden of Minnesota and will hold its first meeting at the Annual
Conference. The third new council is the Administrative Council, which is under the leadership
of its co-chairs, Anne Kelly of Minnesota and Avni Cirpili of Tennessee.
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APNA convened a special Task Force co-chaired by Mary Ann Boyd of Indiana and Georgia
Stevens of Washington, DC to submit a proposal in response to the SAMHSA RFP for the
Recovery to Practice initiative. APNA received the award for nursing, while separate contracts
were awarded to psychiatry, psychology, social work, and consumer peer specialists.
Overall, there has been a renewed interest in all of the councils and task forces. A complete
report of their activities can be found in Appendix A.
Our primary purpose for existing is education and science. Our two largest educational
activities, the Annual Conference and the Clinical Psychopharmacology Institute, have both
enjoyed record attendance.
The 2010 CPI program had record attendance with over 300 PMH nurses present. The Program
Committee, composed of Georgia Stevens (Chair), Mary Ann Boyd, Julie Carbray, Kim Cox, and
Barbara Warren, developed an exceptional program that was rated in the excellent category by
the vast majority of attendees.
We are very grateful to last year’s conference co-chairs Janet Grossman and Preston Fitzgerald
who helped make the event in Charleston, SC an enormous success. We also acknowledge the
chair of the Scholarly Review Committee, Edna Hamera. This year’s conference promises to be
well attended and our conference chair, Kathy Brotzge, along with her committee has a special
event planned for the Friday networking event. The Scholarly Review Committee under the
leadership of its chair, Nancy Hanrahan, has worked hard to review a record number of abstract
submissions for pre-conference, concurrent, and poster sessions. Appendix B provides more
details regarding the conference program and CPI programs.
We are pleased that APNA was successful in its application for funding to continue the APNA
Janssen Student Scholarship program. Once again 15 undergraduate and 15 graduate students
will receive scholarships to attend the conference. We appreciate the efforts of the Awards &
Recognition Committee, chaired by Niki Gjere, who reviewed over 155 applications for the 30
slots.
The Annual Conference and CPI are examples of traditional educational programs. We
recognize that budgetary constraints limit the ability of many of our members to attend on-site
activities. We are introducing at this year’s conference the Key CD program which enables all
attendees to have access to sessions that they were unable to attend while at the conference.
Later in the year many of the Annual Conference sessions will be made available to all members
through the Online Center for Continuing Education (OCCE). The CPI sessions currently
available and offer a great source of contact hours without the need to take time off from work
and incur travel expenses. You can learn more at www.apna.org/CPIOnline.
We are pleased that APNA has been able to successfully obtain funding to provide a new series
of Counseling Points. In conjunction with Delaware Media Group, Issue 1 in a series of 3 on the
topic of Tobacco Dependence has been delivered in print and online to every APNA member.
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Congratulations to Daryl Sharp and Susan Blaakman who co-authored the series which carries 1
contact hour per issue at no cost to members.
APNA has an established record of championing the cause of reduced seclusion and restraint.
The work of the Task Force on Seclusion and Restraint has been taken up by the Institute for
Safe Environments which is co-chaired by Lynn Delacy and Amy Rushton of Virginia. The ISE,
through its workgroup on Competency Based Training, will be presenting a 90-minute
educational session on Competency Based Training for Conducting the One Hour Face to Face
Assessment of a Patient in Restraints or Seclusion. Our thanks to Marlene Nadler-Moodie of
California, David Sharp of Louisiana, Jan Adam of Washington, Maria Fisk of Georgia, Karen
Taylor of Oklahoma, and Karen Vergano of Pennsylvania.
A cornerstone of APNA educational efforts is our journal, JAPNA. We acknowledge the excellent
stewardship of our editor, Karen Stein. The journal’s circulation is growing each year. The reach
of the Journal is also growing with 85% of the institutional subscriptions coming from entities
outside of the USA.

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APNA strives to be a unifying voice in PMHN and to do so the Association must build
relationships with other groups. We work within the overall nursing profession to provide
authoritative information about our specialty and its role in practice, education, research, and
administration. APNA is an active member of the ANA Organizational Affiliates. This provides
APNA with a seat on the ANA Congress for Nursing Practice and Economics. Liz Poster of Texas
has been APNA’s representative for the past three years. As a member of the Congress Liz kept
APNA informed of important activities that affect PMHN and she provided a voice for our
specialty within this multispecialty body that studies and comments on issues which affect all of
nursing. We thank Liz for her years of service. Mary Moller will replace Liz on the Congress and
began a four year term in September 2010. APNA continues to participate with Nursing
Organizational Alliance through attendance at its meetings by the APNA President and
President-Elect. NOA is a strong voice within nursing and is made up of more than 50 nursing
societies. Involvement in the alliance increases APNA’s visibility in nursing. The relationships
that are built through the alliance help APNA advance the views of PMHN. For example,
through the alliance we have developed partnerships with the Emergency Nurses Association
(ENA) to address the problem of holding psychiatric patients in the emergency room. Our NOA
relations led to ANA referring the US Senate Oversight Committee on Aging to APNA for advice
on the use of antipsychotics in nursing homes. APNA members Merrie Kaas of Minnesota,
Georgia Stevens of the District of Columbia, and Mary Moller met in teleconference to inform
Senate staff by providing explanations and reference material.
APNA lends it voice to coalitions within nursing that seek to advance improvements for nursing
in general. We worked routinely with the Nursing Community. This is a coalition of 55 nursing
societies that seek to advance improvements in legislation for all health care. APNA has a
particular interest in efforts to improve funding for nursing education and has lent its name in
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support of letters asking Congress to increase Title VIII funding. We acknowledge the efforts of
Mary Haack of Maryland who monitors this activity on behalf of APNA.
APNA is an active participant in the LACE (Licensure, Accreditation, Certification and Education)
process that has emerged as a result of the “Consensus Model for APRN Regulation for
Licensure, Accreditation, Certification and Education”. APNA is represented at the LACE
meetings by Barbara Drew of Ohio and Pat Cunningham of Tennessee. Barb and Pat along with
Mary Jo Regan-Kobinski of ISPN co-chair the APNA LACE Implementation Task Force. This is a
group made up of APNA and ISPN members who are studying the impact of the Consensus
Model on PMHN and who will be making recommendations to the boards of APNA and ISPN.
The Task Force will provide a report on the direction of their efforts to the APNA membership
during the Annual Conference. The task force, with support from APNA, has been seeking input
from leadership within ANCC, CCNE, NLNAC and NCSBN. These represent the certification,
accreditation and licensure aspects of the model. In terms of education, we are seeking input
from AACN, NACNS and NONPF. The manner in which these discussions are taking place is that
APNA is taking a lead role in establishing dialogue with the organizations that have an impact
on PMHN.
APNA also needs to maintain visibility with non-nursing organizations that impact our specialty.
We are an active participant in the Mental Health Liaison Group. Through this group we are
able to monitor and sign on to important legislation that impacts mental health. The Institute
for Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA), under co-chairs Christine Tebaldi of Massachusetts and
Peg Halter of Ohio, reviews information from the MHLG and recommends action for the BOD to
take.
The IMHA has developed a network of members who monitor several agencies and
organizations that impact PMHN. Here is a list of agencies and members who are working on
our behalf to assure that APNA is aware of activities and in position to make timely comments
when necessary. We are grateful for their service. The IMHA is eager to hear from any member
with an interest in being an agency monitor.
Agency / Organization Focus Area Monitor/Representative
American Association of Colleges
Legislation Debi Schuhow, PMH,CNS-NP
of Nursing
American Academy of Nurse
Policy George Smith, ARNP,GNP-BC, MSN
Practitioners
American College of Nurse
Legislation Patricia Jacobowitz, MS,NP
Practitioners
American Medical Association Legislation Matthew Lindquist, MSN,RN,PMHNP,BC
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American Nurses Association Policy Elizabeth Fife, RN,MSN,CNS,CPN
American Nurses Credentialing
Policy Debi Schuhow, PMH,CNS-NP
Center
American Psychiatric Association Legislation Patricia Jacobowitz, MSN,NP
Center for Disease Control Regulation Matthew Lindquist, MSN,RN,CNS,CPN
Center for Medicare and Leslie Oleck, MSN,PMHCNS-BC,LMFT;
Regulation
Medicaid Services Elizabeth Fife, RN,MSN,CNS,CPN
Policy - Christine Tebaldi, MS,APRN-BC; Elizabeth
Emergency Nurses Association
Nursing Org. Fife, RN,MSN,CNS,CPN
Food and Drug Administration Regulation Matthew Lindquist, MSN,RN,CNS,CPN
Institute of Medicine Policy Patricia Jacobowitz, MSN,NP
International Nurses Society on Policy -
George Smith, ARNP,GNP-BC, MSN
Addictions Nursing Org.
Joint Commission on Health Care Christine Tebaldi, MS,APRN-BC; Maria
Policy
Accreditation Romana, MS,RN,APRN-BC
National Alliance for the Mentally
Policy Elizabeth Fife, RN,MSN,CNS, CPN
Ill
National Association of State Mary Moller, DNP, APRN,PMHCNS-
Policy
Mental Health Program Directors BC,CPRP,FAAN
National Council of State Boards
Regulation Mary Johnson,PhD,RN
of Nursing
National Institute of Health
Regulation Debie Schuhow, PMH,CNS-NP
(NIMH,NIDA, NIAAA)
National Quality Forum Policy Maria Romana, MS,RN,APRN-BC
Substance, Alcohol and Mental
Regulation George Smith, ARNP,GNP-BC,MSN
Health Services Administration
National Association for NPs in
Mary Ann Nihart, APRN-BC
Women's Health
Congressional Record Mary Ann Nihart, APRN-BC
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Through our monitoring system we became aware that psychiatric nursing was inadvertently
not included in the field trail of DSM-5. APNA was able to identify the error and the APA made
immediate adjustments to include PMHN. The APRN Council, under its co-chairs Leslie Oleck of
Indiana and Angela Retano of New York, worked in conjunction with the IMHA to submit
comments on the DSM-5.
APNA members Gail Stern and Lisa Ashton of Maryland met with Dr. Janet Woodcock, Director
of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, along with six other FDA staff to offer advice on
medication errors.
Through our relationship with the ANA, APNA has played a key role in the Relative Update
Committee for CPT codes used in the practice of PMHN. Mary Moller of Connecticut has
represented APNA on this committee that meets under the aegis of the AMA. Over 1,000 APNA
members participated in the first RUC survey. A second survey will take place next spring. The
results are used to guide CMS in setting the Medicare Fee Schedule.
We are all aware of the major impact that JCAHO has in our lives. Carole Farley Toombs of New
York was invited to attend a special workshop on development of standards. Carole’s presence
provided a voice for PMHN.
Another influential organization in mental health care is the Carter Foundation. APNA is invited
to participate in the Annual Conference on Mental Health in order to offer nursing perspectives
on mental health care. Last year Mary Moller attended on our behalf.
In the area of research, APNA was represented by Nancy Hanrahan at the SAMHSA Strategic
Initiative on Behavioral health and by Linda Beeber of North Carolina at the National Institute of
Nursing Research Roundtable and the National Institute on Mental Health Coalition for
Research Progress.
The final group with whom APNA interacts is the consumers of mental health. A very exciting
new element to our committee structure is the newly created Consumer Advisory Panel. This
panel is an offshoot of our work with the Recovery to Practice Task Force. The panel is
comprised of mental health consumers including a number of nurses who advise the APNA BOD
on issues facing PMHN from the consumer point of view. The panel is chaired by Mary Moller
who serves as a liaison to the APNA Board. A complete listing of members can be found in
Appendix C.
We are pleased to report that we have reached out to NAMI and are working to rekindle our
relationship with this strong advocate for mental health. APNA exhibited at the National NAMI
meeting in July. We are grateful to Terry Shively and Jean Robbins of Virginia who attended the
NAMI meeting and held an “Ask the Nurse Session”. The session was well received and the
comments that were made at the APNA booth about the positive impact that nurses have had
on patients and their families were wonderful.
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As you can see, APNA is a busy and vibrant organization. This is a testament to the hard work of
the many members who contribute generously with their time and expertise. Thank you for the
opportunity to serve you. It is an honor to serve as President of APNA. It is an experience that I
will never forget and one that I will hold in my heart forever.
Mary Moller, DNP, APRN, PMHCNS-BC, CPRP, FAAN
APNA Board of Directors, President
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