The first keynote was provided by Dr. Scott Zeller, with Vituity, who initially created the concept of Emergency Psychiatry Assessment, Treatment and Healing (EmPATH) Units with his team. ESH and the state of Kentucky are partnering with UK HealthCare and New Vista to create an EmPATH unit at ESH. The purpose will be to provide a space for patients needing psychiatric care to experience tailored care in a more homelike, less sterile environment.
Dr. Chizimuzo Okoli, ESH Director of Evidence-Based Practice and Tobacco Treatment, UK College of Nursing Professor, and Director, Behavioral Health Wellness Environments for Living and Learning provided our second keynote on IDEAS: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access & Stigma. When providing care, it is important to assure the care is inclusive of all, respectful of diverse populations, providing care that is equitable and accessible to all in a way that breaks down stigma historically associated with mental and behavioral health care.
PRISE had twelve poster presenters. Posters were judged with the 2024 PRISE Outstanding Poster Award going to Bringing Safety to Life: Staff Safety Initiatives at a State Psychiatric Facility by Kevin Bryant, Thomas Pettrey and Marc Woods. As outstanding poster, they will receive a mentor session to help further their research.
Oral presentations followed. PRISE attendees learned about practice and research initiatives happening at ESH related to shared governance, functional family therapy, occupational therapy groups, patient callbacks and kept appointments, seclusion and restraint knowledge and practices, neuroleadership, and dynamic appraisal of situational aggression. Presentations were judged with the 2024 PRISE Outstanding Presentation Award going to Connecting Patient Needs to Appropriate Interventions: A Pilot Study of the Dynamic Appraisal of Situational Aggression (DASA) by John Hensley and Jim Barnes. As outstanding presenter, they will receive a mentor session to help further their research as well.
Over 80 people attended PRISE with additional attendees joining via ZOOM throughout the day. Recordings of most presentations and posters will be available by the end of June 2024.
Want to learn more about practice and research initiatives at ESH? Reach to Heather Robertson at HRobertson@uky.edu.
