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 ...

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 ...

Despite the prevalence of perinatal mental health issues in the United States, gaps in care persist. To address this, perinatal health care settings are asked to focus on patients’ mental health ...

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.

Registered nurse Kristen Maschino looks at an article about burn out among nurses pinned on a bulletin board on the 13B floor, which used to be the COVID-19 unit, on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023, at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.' ...

Many provide mental health support through telemedicine. Psychiatric nurse practitioners typically work Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., but some work off-hours shifts to support ...

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.