VIDEO: Nursing conferences offer opportunity to see nurses ‘unique model of care’

A highlight of nursing conferences, like the American Psychiatric Nurses Association Annual Conference, is “seeing the perspective of the nursing model of care,” according to Lyons Hardy, MS, RN, P-MHNP.

In a video interview, Hardy, clinical assistant professor and concentration lead of the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing, said that nursing meetings offer presentations that focus on “psychosocial factors, providing person-centric care and really treating the whole person” as well as taking care of medications.

“We combine that into our unique model of care so looking at how an illness impacts a person and how it can impact their lives and then on the other side, how we might treat the illness with more of the biological treatments,” Hardy said.