[Advanced Nursing Practice in the Psychiatric and Mental Health Context - Overview and Comparison of the Different Advanced Psychiatric Nursing Roles].

Objectives: Informative and insightful overview of the concept of Advanced Nursing Practice (ANP) and its specific facets with a focus on the psychiatric and mental health care context.

Methods: Systematic literature search in specific electronic databases (PubMed, CINAHL, Google and GoogleScholar) and synthesis of identified sources based on Mayring's structuring content analysis.

Results: In the psychiatric and mental health context, the Clinical Nurse Specialist and Nurse Practitioner are the classic roles of Advanced Nursing Practice. Their educational training, tasks and activities as well as their field of work show many similarities. In addition to the core elements of the ANP roles, there are strong individual characteristics depending on the work setting and patient population.

Conclusions: It is important that the international experience of role development and implementation as well as the specific fields of action are integrated into the German-speaking area. This will allow specialized, expanded and advanced psychiatric care to be established effectively and on a long-term basis in German-speaking countries.