Affiliation:
1. College of Nursing, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Background:
Antipsychotic medications (APMs) have been used to treat multiple psychiatric disorders for decades. The conditions to use these medications have expanded from primarily psychotic disorders to Food and Drug Administration–approved uses as first-line mood stabilizers in bipolar disorder and adjunctive pharmacotherapy in unipolar depression. Antipsychotic medications can have serious side effects, including drug-induced movement disorders (DIMDs). Nurse practitioners (NPs) in non–psychiatric-mental health specialties are increasingly managing psychotropic medication regimes. There is a void in peer-reviewed literature capturing the scope of NPs managing APMs, such as whether they received training to prescribe and manage risks of APM, and if so, what type (e.g., continuing education, attending conferences, consulting), and their confidence assessing and managing DIMDs.
Purpose:
To describe the scope of NP management, knowledge, and confidence related to APMs and associated risks of DIMDs.
Methodology:
Nonexperimental, descriptive, cross-sectional survey. Participants (n = 400) recruited through a professional association membership portal.
Results:
Nearly two-thirds of participants reported managing APMs (64%) and receiving training to prescribe and manage risks of APMs (63%). More than half (54%) reported they received training to do so in their NP education program. Thirty-five percent of participants indicated they were either completely (6%) or fairly (29%) confident, whereas most (65%) endorsed being somewhat (26%), slightly (20%), or not (19%) confident in assessing and managing DIMDs.
Conclusions/Implications:
Opportunities exist to broaden NP education in managing APMs and associated risks of DIMDs.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
General Medicine,General Nursing,General Medicine,General Nursing
Cited by
2 articles.
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