With more than 5 million registered nurses nationally, it represents the largest health care profession in the U.S. "I would hear the students say, 'Oh, I don’t want to be a mental health nurse.' ...

This continuation award is a major step forward in bridging the behavioral healthcare gap, and a reflection of NSU’s ongoing ...

Psychiatric mental-health nurse practitioners have a master’s degree or doctorate in nursing with a psychiatric nurse practitioner concentration. Their training lasts approximately six years.

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) reports that in 2021, fewer than half of American adults with a mental illness (47.2%) were able to receive the mental health services they needed.

From 2011 to 2019, the number of psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners increased 162%, compared with a 6% relative decline in the number of psychiatrists. During this time, annual mental ...

Nurses and charge nurses working at the St. Vincent de Paul Residence are to be given dedicated mental health training, following the signing of an agreement between the hospital and Richmond ...

School nurses manage medications, provide first aid and care for students with chronic illnesses like diabetes, asthma and life-threatening allergies. They also play a critical role in supporting ...

This graduation season, 660 people are heading out into the health care workforce with degrees from the University of California’s four schools of nursing. Some new grads are getting ready to start ...

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga School of Nursing will launch a new Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program in fall 2025 to help meet urgent workforce needs across the ...

Susan Calloway, a professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center’s School of Nursing, said when they established the psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner program in 2016, they ...