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APNA Announcements

  • Happy Nurses Month and Mental Health Awareness Month! It’s time to celebrate YOU! Find bonus FREE CE, insights from previous and current APNA presidents, and more!
  • Registration opens in June for the APNA 38th Annual Conference. Attend this October 9-12 in Louisville, Kentucky, or via virtual livestream.
  • Be inspired by the recently announced 2024 APNA Annual Awards Recipients, APNA members who demonstrate excellence in PMH nursing practice, education, research, leadership, community efforts, and more.
  • Registration is OPEN for the APNA 22nd Annual Clinical Psychopharmacology Institute on June 6-9 in Rockville, Maryland, or virtual. Save your space by May 13 to save!
  • Gain skills in flexible, strategic interventions including reflective listening and learning to recognize change or sustain talk with the new FREE nursing education, Motivational Interviewing: Practical Strategies for Nurses.

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Members’ CornerNews

More Winning Ideas!

November 2023 A sampling of three more first-place posters from the APNA 37th Annual Conference to spark your curiosity.  ...
Members’ CornerNews

Member News November 2023

Member Highlights In a Southern New Hampshire University article called "What is Trauma-Informed Care?", Jackie Bodea adds to the ...

Who is your PMH Nurse Luminary?

November 2023 Who is your PMH Nurse Luminary? Maybe it's the nurse on the unit you go to when ...
APNA News Members’ CornerNewsPresident's Message

We are experts in connection – let’s build a way of thinking about it together!

November 2023 As psychiatric-mental health nurses, we infuse our humanity into the care we provide through connection. We forge ...
Brenda Mayfield
APNA News Members’ Corner

Ask a PMH Nurse: Veterans & Military Sexual Trauma

November 2023 Brenda Mayfield, DNP, CRNP, PMHNP-BC is an Instructor and Co-Coordinator of the PMHNP track at the ...
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 ...
Letters

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

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