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APNA Announcements

  • Happy Nurses Month and Mental Health Awareness Month! It’s time to celebrate YOU! Find bonus FREE CE, insights from previous and current APNA presidents, and more!
  • Registration opens in June for the APNA 38th Annual Conference. Attend this October 9-12 in Louisville, Kentucky, or via virtual livestream.
  • Be inspired by the recently announced 2024 APNA Annual Awards Recipients, APNA members who demonstrate excellence in PMH nursing practice, education, research, leadership, community efforts, and more.
  • Registration is OPEN for the APNA 22nd Annual Clinical Psychopharmacology Institute on June 6-9 in Rockville, Maryland, or virtual!
  • Gain skills in flexible, strategic interventions including reflective listening and learning to recognize change or sustain talk with the new FREE nursing education, Motivational Interviewing: Practical Strategies for Nurses.

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Announcing the new JAPNA Editor

Michelle DeCoux Hampton selected Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (JAPNA) Informed by the ...
Members’ CornerNews

Member News May 2024

Member Highlights In an episode of the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) podcast, clinician, entrepreneur, professor, and APNA New England ...
Announcement

Announcing the 2024 APNA Annual Awards Recipients

The 2024 APNA Annual Awards Recipients: Nine psychiatric-mental health nurses lauded for exceptional contributions to improve mental health outcomes ...
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APNA News

New Suicide Prevention Training

The new APNA Suicide Prevention Certificate Program is here to help increase confidence and competence in the nursing skills of ...
APNA News

APNA Dues Update

Supporting you professionally in vital and timely ways continues to be APNA’s top priority. Your organization has been able ...
President's Message

When the Spirit Moves You

You inspire me. Our connection paradigm is shifting and evolving with your interpretations of CONNECTION. In talking with APNA leaders ...
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CPI: Psychotherapy insights to enhance your practice

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Members’ CornerNews

Why I answered the APNA Call for Nominations 

Evelyn Perkins was Secretary of the APNA Board of Directors from 2020-2023. She explains why she answered the APNA ...
Members’ Corner

My PMH Nurse Luminary leads by example

In this installment of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Luminaries, APNA member Jill Folsom, MS, RN shares how a nurse practitioner ...
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