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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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Expert Sessions at CPI: Destigmatizing Bipolar Disorder With Anyi Atabong

Anyi Atabong, DNP, PMHNP-BC, FNP-C, PMH-C, is a dual board-certified psychiatric mental-health and family nurse ...
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Member News March 2026

Member Highlights Marquis Who's Who honors Faith Carini-Graves for her excellence in health care, highlighting her experience in ...
Stacy Horowitz
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The APNA Memorial Scholarship “Reminded me that my work matters”

The APNA Memorial Scholarship highlights why the work of psychiatric-mental health nurses matters. “More than financial support, the scholarship ...
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How Your Input Shapes Strategy

Remember the survey we sent out late last year, asking what you want from APNA? Here’s how what you ...
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They Shine as they Serve: Announcing the 2026 APNA Annual Awards Recipients

Congratulations to these outstanding nurses honored by their peers with APNA Annual Awards for excellence in psychiatric-mental health nursing. ...

Cannabis & Mental Health: the full story at APNA’s Clinical Psychopharmacology Institute

Cannabis & Mental Health: Complexities in Contemporary Psychopharmacologic Practice Wilson Compton, MD, MPE Deputy Director National Institute on Drug Abuse ...
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March/April 2026 issue of the Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association

As an APNA member, you get free access to each issue of Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, including ...
2026 Consolidated Appropriations Act
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FY2026 Package Provisions Relevant to Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 (H.R. 7148), was signed into law on February 3, 2026 and includes changes relevant ...
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Learn Motivational Interviewing

Online Educational Program Free to Members

Earn contact hours while gaining skills in flexible, strategic interventions with the new nursing education course Motivational Interviewing: Practical Strategies for Nurses. It’s free for APNA members.

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