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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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Members’ Corner

What To Do With What You Know

Your knowledge is indispensable, and your IDEAS are worth sharing! Your peers will thank you for bringing your expertise to ...

APNA President Zim Okoli

APNA News Members’ CornerPresident's Message

President’s Message: Know the Power of Diversity

January 2023 Diversity Includes distinctions in biological and physiological make up (e.g., skin tones, neuronal make up, body shape), ...

Lyons Hardy

APNA News Members’ Corner

Emerging Theories on the Pathophysiology of Psychiatric Disorders

January 2023 This June at the APNA Clinical Psychopharmacology Institute, APNA member Lyons Hardy, MSN, PMHCNS, PMHNP will present fresh ...

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Member News January 2023

Member Highlights University of Massachusetts Amherst recognizes Gabrielle Abelard for her selection as the new president of the APNA New ...

JAPNA article on the APNA PMH Nursing Workforce Survey is now available!

Now Open: APNA 37th Annual Conference Call for Abstracts

January 2023 PMH Nurse Administrators, Educators, Clinicians, and Researchers: Submit your novel ideas by March 6 to be considered for ...

APNA President Zim Okoli

APNA News President's Message

New Year, New I.D.E.A.S.

December 2022 Looking Ahead to 2023 We are often filled with hope and curiosity as the New Year approaches. We ...

Paula Bolton

“I feel energized by the enthusiasm of other attendees”

December 2022 Paula Bolton, MS, CNP, ANP-BC, co-presented ‘Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Nursing’s Role in the Clinical Treatment ...

Memorable, monumental, moving: APNA 36th Annual Conference

November 2022 The APNA 36th Annual Conference on October 19-22 was a fantastic chance to soak up the latest ...