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APNA Announcements

Answer the JAPNA Call for Papers by July 1 for an upcoming special issue on telehealth.
Congratulate the 2026 APNA Board of Directors Student Scholars!

Featured News & Publications

APNA News Members’ Corner

AI in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: Ethics, Risks, & Opportunities for PMH Nurses

From AI scribes that generate clinical documentation to therapy chatbots and predictive analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) tools are rapidly evolving ...

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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Issue Statement Publication

APNA Issue Statement: Addressing Workplace Violence in Today’s Environment

With high (and increasing) rates of violence towards nurses, especially in psychiatric settings, APNA calls for action to address the ...

Members’ CornerNews

Winning Ideas!

Three first-place posters from the APNA 37th Annual Conference offer a variety of PMH nursing insights. Watch this space ...

APRN Certification Eligibility: Comment on ANCC Proposed Criteria

Ocotber 2023 APNA’s organizational response, based on feedback from members and review from APNA experts in psychiatric-mental health ...

APNA News Members’ Corner

Meet Gayle, My Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Luminary

Updated APNA Staffing Inpatient Psychiatric Units Position Now Available

September 2023 Quality inpatient psychiatric care depends on sufficient staffing levels, as well as teams of staff with particular expertise ...

APNA President Zim Okoli

APNA News Members’ CornerPresident's Message

Onward and Upward

September 2023 We set out on this expedition together almost one year ago, as daring explorers. Our journey of psychiatric-...

Members’ CornerNews

Member News September 2023

Member Highlights In a MinnPost article, Adejoke Adedeji speaks on her entrance into nursing, which was fueled by personal experiences ...

APNA News Members’ Corner

We can be part of the solution: Nurse suicide risk

September 2023 Jan York is a nurse suicidologist and has been practicing in suicidology since the 1980s, including prevention and ...

7 Takeaways from the 2023 APNA Annual Award Recipients

September 2023 What does passion in PMH nursing look like? Take a closer look at the 2023 APNA Annual Award ...

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Earn contact hours while gaining skills in flexible, strategic interventions with the new nursing education course Motivational Interviewing: Practical Strategies for Nurses. It’s free for APNA members.