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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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Announcing the 2023 APNA Annual Awards Recipients

April 2023 Seven psychiatric-mental health nurses exemplify the capabilities of this profession to improve mental health outcomes through prevention, ...

Deshauna Barber

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Meet Deshauna Barber, APNA Annual Conference Keynote

Mental health advocate. Award-winning international speaker. Coach. Entrepreneur. Military veteran. Former Miss USA. Dr. Deshauna Barber is all of ...

APNA President Zim Okoli

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President’s Message: What Guides Us

March 2023 Composed of a core ideology, core values, goals, and a long-term envisioned future, APNA’s Strategic Direction ...

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Asked & Answered: APNA Member Survey

March 2023 APNA asked and you responded! Every 3 years, the APNA Board of Directors asks members to share their ...

APNA Memorial Scholarship – Applications now closed

Funded by donations made in memory of Marlene Nadler-Moodie, MSN, APRN, PMHCNS-BC, scholarships will be awarded to up ...

Judy Davidson

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Q&A with Judy Davidson on Nurse Suicide

March 2023 Judy E. Davidson, DNP, RN, MCCM, FAAN is a Nurse Scientist at UC San Diego Health/Research Scientist ...

Call for Comments: DEA Proposed Rules

The Drug Enforcement Agency is accepting feedback through March 31 on 2 proposed rules related to prescribing controlled medications via ...

The Power of Positivity: Lifesaving Perspective

March 2023 The below story is written by APNA Recovery Council Chair Constance Noll, DNP, MA, PMHNP-BC, CRNP. Research ...

APNA President Zim Okoli

President's Message

APNA Core Values: I.D.E.A.S. Matter

The work to promote Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access, and (de)Stigmatization (I.D.E.A.S.), as laid out in ...