APNA and ANCC Collaboration: Achieving Consensus on Future Credentialing for Advanced Practice Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Abstract

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association and the American Nurses Credentialing Center conducted a logical job analysis based on three recent role-delineation studies (RDSs) to determine whether there was enough commonality in the practice of psychiatric and mental health nursing by clinical nurse specialists (PMH-CS) and nurse practitioners (PMH-NP) to support the development of a single certification examination. Three hundred seventy-one work tasks gleaned from the three RDSs were presented for systematic review and discussion by the logical job analysis committee of 28 nurses certified in the specialty. Of the 371 work tasks, 332 (90%) were considered important enough to test for both the PMH-CS and PMH-NP. The results of the logical job analysis indicated that there was enough commonality in the practices of the PMH-CS and PMH-NP in psychiatric mental health nursing to warrant the development of one advanced practice examination for both roles. J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc, 2007; 13(3), 153-159.

The prevalence of depressive symptoms among Arab adolescents: Findings from Jordan

“…This recommendation is particularly relevant to nursing practice. Nurses are trained to deliver holistic care that considers the interpersonal, psychological, and social circumstances that affect the mental and emotional well‐being of patients and their families (Rice, Moller, DePascale, & Skinner, ). Below we discuss relationships between Jordanian adolescents’ characteristics and depression severity, and ways to tackle depression both clinically and in research.…”

National Survey of Psychiatric Mental Health Advanced Practice Nursing: Development, Process, and Finding

“…The results showed that at the entry level both groups of APRNs performed very similar tasks, not exactly the same, but enough overlap that they might be tested with the same adult certification exam (Rice et al, 2007). The combined APRN certification exam is soon to be offered.…”

Achieving Full Scope of Practice Readiness Using Evidence for Psychotherapy Teaching in Web and Hybrid Approaches in Psychiatric Mental Health Advanced Practice Nursing Education

“…Both roles include the skills and knowledge to provide therapeutic interventions including psychotherapies. Further, the roles of PMHCNS and PMHNP were found by Rice, Mollar, DePasquale, and Skinner and the American Nurse Association () to have 97% congruence. The PMHNP role and the behavioral health market underwent revolutionary changes, as captured by Delaney () in The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner 1993–2003: A Decade that Unsettled a Specialty .…”