PMH-APRN
-:- a nurse with graduate-level training who provides psychiatric-mental health care
and promotes mental health across the lifespan
-assess, diagnose and treat individuals and families who have psychiatric and/or substance
disorders
-work in a variety of health care settings and pr...
-The first advanced practice nursing role was the psychiatric-mental health clinical nurse
specialist (PMHCNS) role.
The Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963
✓ -:- (1950s brought a transition towards deinstitutionalization in care for those with
mental illnesses, which led to an increase in the number of psychiatric clients
receiving care in the community rather than hospitals)
-The Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 allowed for the expansion of the
PMHCNS role into community and ambulatory settings as they helped those who had been
deinstitutionalized adapt
1965
✓ -:- Loretta Ford, RN and Henry Silver MD introduce the nurse practitioner role.
1973 ANA first published:
✓ -:- Standards of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Practice
1980s states began to grant:
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