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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!
  • 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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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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APNA News News

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 ...
APNA News

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 ...
Rebecca Puchkors

Suicide Prevention Training Expert Empowers Nurses

September 2023 As an expert in suicide prevention, Rebecca Puchkors, MSN, RN, PMH-BC, CA-SANE, knows the importance of ...
News

APNA Board Endorses Blueprint for Youth Suicide Prevention

APNA's mission includes improving mental health care for culturally diverse individuals, families, groups, and communities, and shaping health policy ...
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