- Health promotion and maintenance
- Intake screening, evaluation and triage
- Case management
- Teaching self-care activities
- Administration and monitoring of psychobiological treatment regimens
- Crisis intervention and stabilization efforts
- Psychiatric rehabilitation and intervention
- Educating patients, families and communities
- Coordinating care
- Become a Registered Nurse: Associate’s Degree, Diploma in Nursing, Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (all qualify to take the RN licensing examination after graduation)
- Obtain a Master’s degree in Psychiatric mental health nursing
Psychiatric Nurses must:
Certification for PMHNs at all levels is provided by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). According to ANCC, the requirements for the psychiatric-mental health nursing RN-BC credential include an
- Hold a current RN license
- 2 years of practice as a full-time registered nurse
- 2,000 hours minimum of clinical practice in psychiatric-mental health nursing within 3 years
- 30 hours of continuing education in psychiatric-mental health nursing within 3 years.
Certification for PMHNs at all levels is provided by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Additional information about certification can be found at https://www.nursingworld.org/ancc/S
The range of salaries reported for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses was $50,209 - $86,794 (Payscale, 2019).
American Psychiatric Nurses Association https://www.apna.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3292#1
Payscale. (2019). Average Registered Psychiatric Nurse. Retrieved at https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Registered_Psychiatric_Nurse_(RPN)/Hourly_Rate
