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APNA Announcements

Happy Nurses Month and Mental Health Awareness Month! Hear from your APNA President, earn additional FREE CE, and see what your psychiatric-mental health nurse colleagues are most proud of.
Answer the JAPNA Call for Papers for an upcoming special issue. The deadline for the special issue on telehealth is July 1, 2026.

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Expert Sessions at CPI: Destigmatizing Bipolar Disorder With Anyi Atabong

Anyi Atabong, DNP, PMHNP-BC, FNP-C, PMH-C, is a dual board-certified psychiatric mental-health and family nurse ...

President's Message

This Month’s For You

You. Are. Amazing. This Nurses Month and Mental Health Awareness Month I am in awe of the difference you make ...

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How Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses Can Use AI Ethically: 4 Practical Steps

There are several steps psychiatric-mental health (PMH) nurses can take now to ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are ...

Building Resilience as PMH Nurses: Community is the Key

How can we build a resilient community? “The word community has a strange power to it; it provides a sense ...

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Member News May 2026

Member Highlights The City University of New York features Valerie Esposito Kubanick after she received the APNA Award for Innovation — ...

May/June Issue of The Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association

As an APNA member, you get free access to each issue of JAPNA, including articles with contact hours!...

President's Message

This Month’s For You

You. Are. Amazing. This Nurses Month and Mental Health Awareness Month I am in awe of the difference you make ...

Announcing the 2026 JAPNA Author Awards Recipients

The JAPNA Author Awards recognize authors who publish outstanding work in the Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (JAPNA) ...

The 2026 APNA Annual Awards Recipients

Nine psychiatric-mental health nurses were highlighted for exceptional contributions to improve mental health outcomes through prevention, education, and science-...

Just Updated! APNA Competency Based Training for Conducting the One-Hour Face-to-Face Assessment for Persons in Restraint or Seclusion

A crucial training for conducting the required one-hour face-to-face assessment of patients in restraint or seclusion following ...

April 2026 Policy Update

Key developments this month The comment period is open for the CMS FY 2027 inpatient psychiatric facility proposed rule. FY ...

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