Maximizing the AACN/NIDA Mentored-Facilitated Training Award
Webinar Details & Objectives
This webinar focuses on topics surrounding the successful completion of the 2018 AACN/NIDA Mentored-Facilitated Award for substance use disorders science dissemination. Strategies that promoted successful dissemination of evidence-based practices in the field of at-risk substance use will be discussed, along with professional opportunities that extended beyond the award. Thoughtful analysis on the mentor-mentee relationship and how this dyad changed overtime will also be discussed.
Objectives
- Identify examples of post-award strategies that promoted success
- Discuss professional opportunities that extended beyond the award
- Distinguish how the mentor-mentee relationship changes over time
Speakers
Faculty Consultant
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Dr. Deborah S. Finnell is a faculty consultant at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, where, until her retirement was a Professor of Nursing. She has specialized in psychiatric mental health and addictions nursing for most her career. She is past president of the International Nurses Society on Addictions and editor of the 2013 edition of the Addictions Nursing Scope and Standards. She also served as chair of the Addictions Nursing Certification Board and former board member of the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA). Dr. Finnell continues as the associate editor of AMERSA’s professional journal, Substance Abuse.
Her work related to substance-use related screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment has been funded by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), Centers for Disease Control, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). As a result, substance-related content including Screening, Brief Intervetion, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) has been fully integrated into the nursing curricula at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (JHSON), and two online SBIRT and SBI programs, developed with her colleagues and team were launched in 2018. She is currently working on a SAMHSA-funded project to include opioid use-related and safe opioid prescribing content into the Doctor of Nursing Practice curricula at JHSON.
Nurse Practitioner
Gouverneur Health/ New York City Health + Hospitals
Yovan Gonzalez is a family nurse practitioner working as a primary care provider for Gouverneuer Heatlh, affiliate with the New York City Health and Hospitals system. At Gouverneur, Yovan has led efforts to integrate behavioral health into primary care by participating as a member of the Integrated Care Committee and the Primary Care Behavioral Health Subcommittee. Yovan was o one of the first nurse practitioners at Gouverneur to be waivered to prescribe buprenorphine. At the Roberto Clemente Center, he has focused on providing integrated care at a behavioral health facility whose clients are mainly Hispanic. He has also successfully integrated a buprenorphine clinic and Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) into routine clinical practice.
Yovan is originally from Lima, Peru. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he received his BSN and MSN as family nurse practitioner. Yovan is completing his Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. His DNP scholarly project focuses on increasing nurses’ knowledge in the screening and management of substance use through an online SBIRT program. Yovan is a doctoral fellow of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Minority Fellowship Program and the recipient of the 2018 American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Mentored-Facilitated Training Award. Yovan is also a 2018 American Psychiatric Nurses Association Board of Directors student scholar.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to deans, faculty, staff, and students from AACN member schools of nursing. All non-member audiences will be required to pay a $59 webinar fee.
Continuing Education Credits
Eligible attendees may receive one continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hour for participating in this webinar. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is an accredited CNE-provider by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.