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Toward an Integration of Competencies for Advanced Practice Mental Health Nursing

College of Nursing at the University of South Carolina in Columbia

Daniel J. Pesut, , RN, CS, PhD, FAAN

Department of Environments for Health at Indiana University School of Nursing in Indianapolis

Mary Boyd, RN, PhD

University of South Carolina in Columbia

Sheryl S. Russell, RN, CS, PhD

University of South Carolina in Columbia

Jan Morrow, RN, CS, MN, CANP

University of South Carolina in Columbia

Kathleen Head, RN, CS, MS

University of South Carolina in Columbia

As new models of health care delivery evolve, the work of advanced practice nurses is growing in importance. Graduate programs in nursing have traditionally prepared advanced practice nurses for separate roles as clinical nurse specialists or as nurse practitioners. However, there are increasing trends toward the blurring of bound aries between these two types of advanced practice roles. Hence, a future blended role is projected by many nurse educators. The merger of clinical nurse specialist and nurse practitioner roles, however, requires corresponding shifts in academic pro grams. The purposes of this article are to discuss the need for a blended clinical spe cialist-nurse practitioner role in mental health, to identify populations of clients who would be served by a blended role provider, to discuss the competencies associated with such a role, and to share an approach to the preparation of advanced practice mental health specialist/practitioners. (J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc [1998]. 4, 48-56)

Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Vol. 4, No. 2, 48-56 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/107839039800400206


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