2025 APNA Secretary’s Report

Dear Colleagues,

Constance Noll
APNA Secretary

As the Secretary for the APNA Board of Directors, I am pleased to provide you with this annual update on our membership and communications during the past year.

The APNA Secretary is responsible for corporate records and taking minutes during official meetings of the APNA Board of Directors. During the past year, the APNA Board of Directors conducted meetings on October 8, 2024; November 12, 2024; December 10, 2024; January 14, 2025; February 27-28, 2025; March 18, 2025; April 8, 2025; May 13, 2025; June 4-5, 2025; July 8, 2025; August 12, 2025; and September 9, 2025.

Our current membership is approximately 15,000 members, and we gain about 14 new members each day. Our renewal rate is 81% and the average tenure of a member is around 5 years.

APNA volunteers contributed their leadership and expertise to a host of new and updated resources released this year, including:

• New APNA Position: Youth Suicide Prevention
• Transforming Addiction Care Webinar Series
• Graduate Faculty Toolkit
• 2025 State of the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Workforce Report
• Updated APNA Positions:
  • Nurse Assessment & Management of Suicide Risk
  • Psychiatric-Mental Health Advanced Practice Nurses
  • Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses’ Role in Primary Care
  • Violence Prevention
  • Psychotherapy & the Scope of the PMH-APRN Role

Your resource for online nursing continuing professional development, the APNA eLearning Center, continues to provide high-quality evidence-based education addressing a range of topics relevant to RN and APRN practice. 457 sessions are available online, with 382 total contact hours. APNA has offered more than 70 on-demand educational sessions with contact hours for free to members. Likewise, the conversations continue on APNA Member Bridge; your destination for member connection and collaboration has more than 146,000 resources and posts shared by members. Our community serves as an always growing and evolving source for the collective wisdom, experiences, and concerns shared by PMH nurses.

Thank you for all you do and for being a member of your association of professionals. Looking at our accomplishments this year, I feel proud to be in the company of such exceptional nurses devoted to our profession.

Respectfully submitted,

Constance Noll, DNP, MA, PMHNP-BC, CRNP
Secretary