0950_SHSO_Role of the Clinical Pharmacist Across the Mental Health Patient Continuum of Care_Live

May 12, 2026

Description:

Pharmacists play a key role in mental healthcare across Sutter Health settings, including emergency medicine, inpatient psychiatry, and ambulatory psychiatry. This presentation will highlight their goals, contributions, and future directions in psychiatric care while addressing broader challenges in behavioral health practice, including evolving evidence, integrated care models, and virtual delivery systems that impact interdisciplinary collaboration and consistency in practice.

Assembly Bills 1195 & 241- Culturally Appropriate Care which is Free of Implicit Biases:

Learners are strongly encouraged to engage in self-directed learning related to the impact of implicit biases in this clinical area via the references provided below:

- Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)/Cultural or Linguistic Considerations:
  - Kirkbride, J. B., Anglin, D. M., Colman, I., Dykxhoorn, J., Jones, P. B., Patalay, P., Pitman, A., Soneson, E., Steare, T., Wright, T., & Griffiths, S. L. (2024). The social determinants of mental health and disorder: evidence, prevention and recommendations. World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), 23(1), 58–90. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.21160

Target Audience

Nurse Practitioner (NP)

Nurse, Registered (RN)

Pharmacists (PharmD)

Physicians (MD or DO)

Physician Assistant (PA)

Psychologists

Social Workers

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1.Describe the role of the Emergency Medicine Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner in the care of ED mental health patients, Inpatient Clinical Pharmacist in the care of acute psychiatry patients, and Ambulatory Advanced Pharmacist Practitioners in the care of outpatient psychiatry patients.

2.Identify opportunities for pharmacist involvement in your service based on examples provided in this presentation and apply them in your practice.

3. Review and incorporate drug monitoring concepts in the emergency, acute, and ambulatory concepts related to psychopharmacotherapy.

Course summary

Available credit:

1.00 ACPE
Pharmacy Credit - Accreditation Council of Pharmacy Education (ACPE)
Sutter Health designates this Live activity for a maximum of 1.00 of ACPE credit(s). Credits for pharmacists and technicians will be transmitted to CPE Monitor and will be available within 60 days post-activity pending submission of individual NABP e-PID and DOB (mm/dd only). Pharmacists should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Physician Credit
Sutter Health designates this Live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
1.00 Non-Physician Participation Credit
Sutter Health designates this Live activity for a maximum of 1.00 Non-Physician Participation Credit. Non-Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits HOURS™ Continuing Medical Education is acceptable for meeting the continuing education requirements for Pharmacists, Physician Assistants, Psychologists, Registered Nurses, and Respiratory Care Practitioners. For other disciplines, please check with the regulatory board for your discipline to confirm what type of credits meet the continuing education requirements. Continuing education hours for nurses accredited by ANCC, via Joint Accreditation.
1.00 ANCC
Nursing Credit - American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
Sutter Health designates this Live activity for a maximum of 1.00 ANCC contact hour(s). Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
1.00 ASWB-ACE
Social Work Credit
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Sutter Health is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 1.00 continuing education credits.
1.00 CA BRN
Nursing Credit - California Board of Registered Nursing (CA BRN)
This activity is approved for 1.00 contact hour(s) by Sutter Health, which is an approved provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing. (Provider Number 17182). Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
1.00 IPCE
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

Course opens:

05/12/2026

Course expires:

06/12/2026

Event starts:

05/12/2026 - 12:00pm PDT

Event ends:

05/12/2026 - 1:00pm PDT

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Disclosure of Financial or In-Kind Commercial Support & Conflict of Interest

Matthew White, planner of System Behavioral Health Virtual Grand Rounds, has disclosed a financial relationship with an ineligible company Lief, in the form of stock ownership/stock options received in exchange for prior services. He is no longer actively engaged with the company. This relationship has been reviewed and mitigated in accordance with ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education.

No one else involved in the planning or presentation of this educational activity have any relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. No financial or in-kind commercial support was received to produce or promote this educational activity.

– Provider Designee/Verification: Fozia Ferozali, Ed.D.

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