The Nevada Nurses Association is proud to join the American Nurses
Association in JOINING FORCES for Veterans, Military Service Members,
and their families.
The American Nurses Association (ANA) and the experts in the
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have committed to “touch every
nurse”. In the country to raise awareness of Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)<br>A disorder that occurs among survivors of severe environmental stress such as a tornado, an airplane crash, or military combat. Symptoms include anxiety, insomnia, flashbacks, and nightmares. and Traumatic brain injury (TBI), traumatic injuries to the brain, also called intracranial injury. Simply head injury, occurs when a sudden trauma causes brain damage. TBI can result from a closed head injury or a penetrating head injury and is one of two subsets of acquired brain in returning combat veterans.
Created by VA’s National Center for PTSD PTSD posttraumatic stress disorder.
PTSD
abbr.
posttraumatic stress disorder
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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and ANA
collaborators, PTSD mobile apps are for everyone, including those who
are caring for people with PTSD. Apps include the award winning PTSD
Coach mobile app and the first PTSD treatment companion app.
Treatment companion apps are to be used by a patient who's in PTSD
treatment together with their care provider. The apps are to assist with
PTSD treatment. The first app of this kind is to be used by a patient
who's receiving Prolonged Exposure (pE) Therapy for PTSD: PE Coach.
This app can assist you when using Prolonged Exposure (PE) Therapy for
PTSD. It allows patients to keep track of homework and record their
narrative.
These free PTSD apps are available for Android An open platform for cellphones from the Open Handset Alliance (OHA). Based on Linux, Android includes a library of Java classes for building mobile applications.
Android and GPhone and Apple mobile
devices, including tablets.
Provider Apps (use to make your job easier) Disaster Response–PFA
Mobile: PFA stands for Psychological First Aid, an intervention to help
people following disaster. Learn from the PFA online manual and
training. Then this app can assist you in the field. (Coming in the
next few weeks!)
These free PTSD apps are available for Android and Apple mobile
devices, including tablets.
What other apps would help you with PTSD care? More apps are coming
soon. If you've ideas email ncptsd@va.gov.
