Essays on PMH

Advanced practice registered nurses are registered nurses with a level of nursing practice that employs skills, experience and knowledge in nursing care. They have attained a Masters or post Master’s degree and have a specific role and serve a specific patient population ("APRNS in the U.S", 2016). With the education and certification, APRNs can assess, diagnose, prescribe medications and order laboratory and diagnostic tests. APRNs can be divided into 4 different areas of specialty: Certified Nurse Practitioner (CNP), Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), Certified registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), and Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM). A Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner is a ...

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Psychological Nursing is a nursing specialty that deals with and care for people with mental distress or mental health illnesses like bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, dementia or depression. Registered psychological mental health nurses work with families, groups, communities and individuals of all ages attending to their health needs. In this specialty, nurses receive intense training in psychological therapies. They deal with demanding behavior and psychiatric medication administration. Traditionally, mentally ill people in the society were removed and placed in asylums, indefinitely, patients inside the mental health system were required to take compliant roles in management of their own care and decision ...