Benefits & Services

APNA provides its members with exceptional benefits to further their leadership potential and training opportunities.

Professional Growth

  • Enhance your nursing knowledge with continuing education contact hours for psychiatric-mental health nursing
  • Have an impact in your field by participating in our state chapters and volunteer committees, task forces and councils
  • Achieve recognition through the APNA Annual Awards
  • Learn from nationally-recognized speakers and attend state-of-the-art workshops during the Annual and CPI Conferences
  • Apply for grants and scholarships from the American Psychiatric Nursing Foundation
Information and Resources
Discounts
  • Save $200 on general registration fees for the APNA Annual Conference and the Clinical Psychopharmacology Institute
  • Download full-text articles of JAPNA at no cost (a savings of $25 per article)
  • Reduced rates on APNA educational material
  • Substantial special savings on certification, exams and review materials from the American Nurses Credentialing Center exclusively for APNA members. Learn about these discounts.
  • Discounts on Long Term Care coverage for yourself and your family members 
  • Special rates for nurses at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort
  • Special rates for other association conferences and educational materials
  • A 10% discount on publications offered by American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Government Relations
  • Headquartered just minutes from Washington, DC, APNA maintains on-going contact with a number of federal agencies and mental health consumer groups, including:
    • National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    • National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
    • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
    • Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)
    • National Alliance of Mentally Ill (NAMI)
    • National Mental Health Association (NMHA)
    • Food and Drug Administration (FDA)