Table of Contents

• Scope of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Practice
• History and Evolution of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
• Origins of the Psychiatric-Mental Health Advanced Practice
• Nursing Role
• Current Issues and Trends
• Prevalence of Mental Disorders across the Lifespan
• Substance Abuse Disorders: Prevalence and Comorbidities
• Children and Older Adults
• Disparities in Mental Health Treatment
• Opportunities to Partner with Consumers for Recovery
• and Wellness
• Structure of a Person-Centered, Recovery-Oriented
• Public Health Care Model: Unifying Efforts
• Definition of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
• Phenomena of Concern for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses
• Definition of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
• Phenomena of Concern for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses
• Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Clinical Practice Settings
• Crisis Intervention and Psychiatric Emergency Services
• Acute Inpatient Care
• Intermediate and Long-Term Care
• Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Treatment
• Residential Services
• Community-Based Care
• Assertive Community Treatment
• Levels of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Practice
• Psychiatric-Mental Health Registered Nurse
• Psychiatric-Mental Health APRN
• Consensus Model: LACE (Licensure, Accreditation,
• Certification and Education) and APRN Roles
• Primary Care
• Psychotherapy
• Psychopharmacological Interventions
• Case Management
• Program, System, and Policy Development and Management
• Psychiatric Consultation–Liaison Nursing
• Clinical Supervision
• Administration, Education, and Research Practice
• Self-Employment
• Other Specialized Areas of Practice
• Integrative Programs
• Telehealth
• Forensic Mental Health
• Disaster Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
• Ethical Issues in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing continued
• Standards of Practice for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
• Standard 1. Assessment
• Standard 2. Diagnosis
• Standard 3. Outcomes Identification
• Standard 4. Planning
• Standard 5. Implementation
• Standard 5 A. Coordination of Care
• Standard 5 B. Health Teaching and Health Promotion
• Standard 5 C. Consultation
• Standard 5 D. Prescriptive Authority and Treatment
• Standard 5E. Pharmacological, Biological, and Integrative Therapies
• Standard 5F. Milieu Therapy
• Standard 5G. Therapeutic Relationship and Counseling
• Standard 5H. Psychotherapy
• Standard 6. Evaluation
• Standards of Professional Performance for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
• Standard 7. Ethics
• Standard 8. Education
• Standard 9. Evidence-Based Practice and Research
• Standard 10. Quality of Practice
• Standard 11. Communication
• Standard 12. Leadership
• Standard 13. Collaboration
• Standard 14. Professional Practice Evaluation
• Standard 15. Resource Utilization
• Standard 16. Environmental Health
• Glossary
• References
• Appendix A. Psychiatric-Mental Health: Scope and Standards of Practice (2007)