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Announcing the 2026 APNA Memorial Scholarship Recipients

Through the APNA Memorial Scholarship, we honor the legacies of nurses whose dedication to psychiatric-mental health nursing and persons ...

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 ...

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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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Member News March 2024

Member Highlights Kathleen R. Delaney was named to the planning committee for a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (...

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My PMH Nurse Luminary helped found APNA

In this installment of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Luminaries, APNA member Wailua Brandman, APRN, PMHCNS/NP-BC, FAANP shares how ...

Member News January 2024

Member Highlights University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Nursing School highlights Stuart Eynon in an article that tells his ...

Lisa Ledonne

APNA News Members’ Corner

Self-Harm Prevention Project: Presenting at the APNA Annual Conference

Self-Harm Prevention Project: Innovative and Evidence-Based Solutions to Promote a Safe Environment of Care on Inpatient Psychiatry was ...

APNA 22nd Clinical Psychopharmacology Institute presenter Kirby Williams. Williams, a member of APNA, will present Optimizing with Less: The Art of Deprescribing. CPI is June 6-9, 2024, in Rockville, Maryland, or through Virtual Livestream.

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The Art of Deprescribing: A look ahead to CPI

Kirby Williams, MSN, PMHNP-BC, will present Optimizing with Less: The Art of Deprescribing at the APNA 22nd Clinical Psychopharmacology ...

In Memory of Barbara J. Limandri

September 28, 1948 - December 18, 2023 Barbara Limandri, PhD, PMHCNS-BC died in Milwaukie, Oregon on December 18. The second ...

Members’ CornerNewsPresident's Message

2024 with light in sight!

January, 2024 At the dawn of a new year, I hope you, like me, are feeling energized to bring new ...