Artificial Intelligence & Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
Artificial intelligence (AI) brings potential benefits, risks, and ethical implications for psychiatric-mental health nurses. To inform conversations around its use, here are a few resources, plus a way you can help shape APNA’s issue brief on the topic!
APNA, AI, and You
These two APNA resources offer general background and guidance for AI use:
- AI Background for APNA Members: A plain-language overview of AI, common tools, benefits, and risks.
- APNA AI Policy for Volunteers: Guidance for using AI in your APNA volunteer work.
Ethical Use of AI in PMH Nursing
Two articles cover perspectives shared at a 2025 APNA Annual Conference panel:
- Ethics, Risks, & Opportunities for PMH Nurses: Consider AI’s potential benefits alongside concerns about privacy, bias, clinical judgment, and therapeutic relationships.
- 4 Practical Steps for Using AI Ethically: A few suggested actions that can support transparency, human oversight, patient trust, and responsible implementation.
Updates for Practice this October
Explore AI at the APNA 40th Annual Conference, October 28–31 in Phoenix, through evidence-based presentations across all domains of PMH nursing. Topics include clinical judgement, documentation, ethics, research, simulation, and algorithmic justice. Explore All AI Presentations
What questions do you have?
To ensure a resource in development about AI and PMH nursing meets your needs, the APNA Board of Directors invites your input:
What would you like to know about AI’s use, risks, or implications for PMH nursing and those in your care?
Share your questions and help guide future content.
