How do they match: Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses

  • Clinical Nurse Specialist
  • Psychologist
  • Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist
  • Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist
  • Psychiatric-Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist

  • Collaborate with interdisciplinary team members, including psychiatrists, psychologists, or nursing staff, to develop, implement, or evaluate treatment plans.
  • Distinguish between physiologically- and psychologically-based disorders, and diagnose appropriately.
  • Document patients' medical and psychological histories, physical assessment results, diagnoses, treatment plans, prescriptions, or outcomes.

  • Treat patients using psychological therapies.