The Future of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: Observe, Reflect, and Take Action to Empower Knowledge for the Greater Good.

The purpose of this article is a call for action to identify areas of concern and promise for the specialty of psychiatric-mental health nursing to flourish in the twenty first century and beyond in the United States. Bits and pieces of this call for action may be relevant to other countries where psychiatric-mental health nursing has had similar trends. However, this paper focuses on the issues, barriers, and politics of education, practice, and research for nurses in the United States who gravitate to psychiatric-mental health and endeavor to rise above the value-laden past that perpetuates the marginalization of not only the specialty, but also the work that PMHN do and for the individuals that they are meant to care for in the new millennial.

Substance use-related continuing education course objectives: Alignment with professional competencies.

: Novel educational efforts are needed to prepare the current and future interprofessional health care workforce to address the range of substance use-related health problems. A 6-module massive open online course (MOOC) was developed to provide education to health professionals of various disciplines on the fundamentals of substance use-related treatment. The purpose of this project was to match course objectives to substance use-related competencies for 5 disciplines: nurses, pharmacists, physicians, physician assistants (PA), and social workers.

Integrating behavioral health and substance use models for advanced PMHN practice in primary care: Progress made in the 21st century.

The integration of behavioral health and substance use assessment and treatment has advanced in primary care settings in the 21st century yet the roles and practice of nursing remain unclear. This paper focuses on the Institute of Medicine (2011) Report on the "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health", and to what degree specialty of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing has advanced as it pertains to behavioral health integration. Each of the four domains (practice, education, leadership and policy) in the Report will be highlighted with recommendations for how Psychiatric-Mental Health Advanced Practice Nurses can lead the way in 2020 and beyond.

Quality improvement and models of behavioral healthcare integration: Position paper #2 from the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses.

This is the second article in a series written to present and address the position of the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses (ISPN) related to the notion of behavioral healthcare integration and the role of nurses in the 21st century. The first article addressed assumptions, definitions and roles related to the integration of behavioral healthcare. The purpose of this article is to focus on Integrated Care within the context of recent initiatives that endeavor to improve quality, safety and reduce costs in the US healthcare system also known as the "Triple Aim" (or more recently, the Quadruple Aim).

Patient-Centered Homes and Integrated Behavioral Health Care: Reclaiming the Role of "Consultant" for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner.

The notion of patient-centered care has long been linked with nursing practice since Florence Nightingale. The discipline of nursing is focused on the holistic care of individuals, families, and communities in times of sickness and/or health. However, in psychiatric-mental health nursing, the concepts of mental health and psychiatric illness still remain marginalized in our health care delivery systems, as well as in nursing education, knowledge development, and practice.

Psych NP-NC: a benchmark graduate nurse practitioner program for meeting the mental health needs in North Carolina.

UNC-Chapel Hill's Psych NP-NC program prepares clinically and culturally proficient nurse practitioners to provide psychiatric and mental health care in North Carolina areas that are medically underserved and have a greater number of health disparities. This article reviews the program and the role of its graduates and makes policy recommendations for improving mental health care in the state.

His-story or her-story: deconstruction of the concepts of somatization towards a new approach in advanced nursing practice care.

Purpose: This article will endeavor to present an alternative view of somatoform disorders, assist in understanding the possible underlying comorbid psychiatric symptoms, and identify psychopharmacological options for treatment.

Conclusions: Recognizing symptom clusters is a useful strategy when considering psychotropic options for treatment and management.

Practice Implications: The alternative strategies presented and discussed in this article can contribute to a useful and positive experience for both the clinician and the individual suffering from medically unexplained physical symptoms as they promote the care, health, and well-being of the individual rather than a cure, illness, and/or disease state that needs rendering, mending, and/or surgery.

Interactionality: willfully extending the boundaries of participatory research in psychiatric-mental health nursing.

The concepts of somatization and hysteria have been used in nursing, medicine, and healthcare to describe and explain the "unfounded attributes'' of women's expressions of pain and discomfort. This study, grounded in poststructural ideologies, extends the boundaries of participatory research in psychiatric-mental health nursing and, thus, developed a series of methodological techniques coined "Interactionality'' that then challenged the concept of somatization. This article focuses on the philosophical and conceptual assumptions of Interactionality, and introduces the notion of a double-voiced discourse as a means of communicating the analysis and findings of critical research.