KySS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Fellowship - Program Details
Program Details
The KySS Fellowship Program will provide access to a large number of practitioners from across Arizona and the United States. Healthcare providers enrolled in the KySS Fellowship Program will complete a total of 20 online modules. The uniqueness of this fellowship program in comparison to typical continuing education programs is that each module is designed to be completed at the participant’s own pace and will be complemented by clinical learning activities that are guided by a faculty mentor with expertise in child and adolescent mental health.
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The ASU College of Nursing and Health Innovation has been consistently ranked among the best in the nation according to the US News & World Report Rankings of America’s Best Graduate Nursing Schools. The new KySS fellowship program is directed by Dean Bernadette Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/PMHNP, FNAP, FAAN, and Ann Guthery, MS, RN, PMHNP- BC, Co-Director who are both child/family psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners.
Certificate of Completion
Upon satisfactory completion of the entire fellowship program, the participants will receive a KySS Fellowship certificate of completion from the ASU College of Nursing & Health Innovation and nursing continuing education contact hours from the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) or continuing medical education credits from the Phoenix Children’s Hospital – Department of Medical Education.
PROGRAM CREDIT
Continuing Nursing Education (CNE)
This program is approved for 112 NAPNAP contact hours of which 33.25 contain pharmacology (Rx) content per the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners Continuing Education Guidelines.
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of Phoenix Children’s Hospital and Arizona State University. Phoenix Children’s Hospital is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Phoenix Children’s Hospital designates this educational activity for a maximum of 92 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
For more information specific to contact hours, please send an email to ACE@asu.edu or call (602) 496-7431.
Who Should Apply?
Healthcare clinicians practicing in pediatric, adolescent/college, or family primary care and school health settings, such as:
- Advanced practice nurses
- Clinical nurse specialists
- School nurses
- Other professional nurses
- Pediatricians
- Family physicians
- Physician assistants
- Social workers
- Other health related professionals
