Psychiatric Nursing Grand Rounds
July 10, 2024
1:30 p.m. or 4:00 p.m.
FREE. Open to all nurses!
Penn Medicine Princeton House Behavioral Health
Conference Center
905 Herrontown Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
The Etiology, Diagnosis and Assessment of Tardive Dyskinesia
Specially crafted for nurses, this talk will assist bedside caregivers to recognize dyskinesias in patients taking neuroleptic medications.
Speaker: Shital Mistry, FNP-BC, MSN, RN Family Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Science Liaison with Teva Medical Affairs
Participants will learn:
- The definition, pathophysiology, diagnostic criteria, clinical presentation, risk factors, burden of disease, and incidence/prevalence rate of TD.
- How changes in movements caused by TD are captured on the AIMS scale.
- How an AIMS assessment is completed by a movement disorder specialist, for HCPs to visualize different severities of TD and the AIMS scores in different parts of the body affected by TD. Via visual illustration.
- How patients with TD performing activities of daily living, via illustration.
Psychiatric nurses, mental health associates, and nurses’ aides are welcome to attend this free event. Registration for either 1:30 or 4 p.m. events is required.
Longstanding Anorexia Nervosa
Panel Discussion
Please note that the Princeton Center for Eating Disorders panel discussion on the Princeton Initiative for Severe Anorexia (PISA) previously scheduled for Wednesday, June 26 has been postponed.
We will reschedule for Fall 2024 and notify you of the future date and time as soon as possible.
