Mental Health During a Pandemic - CME CNE APA



Friday, April 3, 2020, 12:01 AM - Thursday, December 31, 2020, 11:59 PM


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AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (1.00 hours), ANCC - American Nurses Credentialing Center (1.00 hours), Psychologists - APA CE (1.00 hours)


This CME enduring material activity is a video capture of a live session of a VUMC Medicine Grand Rounds offered on April 2, 2020, during the COVID-19 outbreak at VUMC and Nashville. A panel of faculty members from the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences discussed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of VUMC health care professionals and staff and VUMC patients and how to mitigate that impact. Topics include how does the brain deal with uncertainty, coping with the impact of the trauma associated with a pandemic, what we have learned from natural disasters that is relevant to the current pandemic, the psychology of working on the front-lines with patients who have covid-19, healthy management of emotions related to a pandemic, and the role of mindfulness in a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic.


ACCME Objectives
  1. Describe and discuss the difference between fear and anxiety and how anxiety manifests physically
  2. Describe and discuss strategies for reflecting on and altering your reactions to stress and the conditions that produced it
  3. Describe and discuss approaches to managing emotions when caring for patients and yourself
  4. Describe and discuss the role of mindfulness in coping with stressful situations like the current COVID-19 pandemic

APA Objectives
  1. Describe and discuss the difference between fear and anxiety and how anxiety manifests physically
  2. Describe and discuss strategies for reflecting on and altering your reactions to stress and the conditions that produced it
  3. Describe and discuss approaches to managing emotions when caring for patients and yourself
  4. Describe and discuss the role of mindfulness in coping with stressful situations like the current COVID-19 pandemic

ANCC Learning Outcomes
  1. Describe and discuss the difference between fear and anxiety and how anxiety manifests physically
  2. Describe and discuss strategies for reflecting on and altering your reactions to stress and the conditions that produced it
  3. Describe and discuss approaches to managing emotions when caring for patients and yourself
  4. Describe and discuss the role of mindfulness in coping with stressful situations like the current COVID-19 pandemic


Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Nursing Education and Professional Development is an approved provider of nursing professional development by the Tennessee Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center designates this enduring material for a maximum 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Vanderbilt University Medical Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center designates this educational activity for 1.0 CE credit toward the continuing educational of psychologists.

No partial credit may be awarded.

Instructional Level: Intermediate

It is the policy of Vanderbilt University Medical Center not to discriminate against any person on the basis of disabilities.  If you feel you need services or auxiliary aids mentioned in the Americans with Disabilities Act in order to fully participate in this continuing education activity, please speak with the CME Associate listed below.

For more information, please contact Jennye Laws-Woolf at jennye.woolf@vumc.org