Psychiatric Advance Directives (PADS): Research and Regulations Review: SELF-PACED ONLINE COURSE

Psychiatric Advance Directives (PADS): Research and Regulations Review

 A psychiatric advance directive (PAD) is a legal tool that allows a person with mental illness to state their preferences for treatment in advance of a crisis. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has made PAD compliance a “condition for participation” to receive reimbursement from these federal payers and recently implemented new key quality measures focused on PAD implementation on psychiatric units, and most states in the US have enacted laws regulating PAD utilization in clinical practice. The presentation will provide a review of historical precedents, peer-reviewed research, laws and regulations focusing on utilization of Psychiatric Advance Directives.  

Learning objectives: 

• Examine utility of psychiatric advance directives in clinical practice; 

• Understand the scope of preferences that patients can specify in psychiatric advance directives; 

• Recognize obligations of and immunities granted to the health care staff under NRS 449A.600 – 449A.645.

Presented by:  Dr. Leon Ravin, MD Statewide Psychiatric Medical Director Division of Public and Behavioral Health DHHS, State of Nevada

Continuing Education Units: 1 CEU

This training is approved for continuing education by the boards listed here.* This training is also approved by the Nevada Certification Board for PRSS(-S), CHW, and Doulas.

*This course has been approved by CASAT, School of Public Health, University of Nevada, Reno, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 1 CEU. NAADAC Provider #98165. CASAT, University of Nevada, Reno is responsible for all aspects of its programming.

*This course applies to the following Counselor Skill Groups as defined by NAADAC: Clinical Intake and Screening, Clinical Assessment, Treatment Plan, Counseling Services, Documentation, Case Management, Discharge and Continuing Care, and Legal, Ethical and Professional Development, Pharmacology and Physiology.

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