Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association
Nurses Turn to JAPNA for Cutting Edge Information on Psychiatric Nursing Practice, Education, and Research...
The Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (JAPNA) provides quality, up-to-date information to: promote psychiatric nursing, improve mental health care for culturally diverse individuals, families, groups, and communities, and shape health care policy for the delivery of mental health services.
JAPNA, a peer-reviewed journal, publishes both clinical and research articles relevant to psychiatric nursing. Authors describe critical and timely analyses of the emerging issues and trends in psychiatric nursing, and present innovative models of practice related to mental health care systems. JAPNA publishes original research, review, and practice-focused articles that include continuing education credit, as well as brief reports, quality improvement, and discussion articles, and letters to the editors. The Journal’s expert content provides psychiatric nurses with the most up-to-date evidence-based nursing practices, innovative therapeutic approaches, significant information trends, and useful, clinically focused research in psychiatric mental health nursing and its related subspecialties.
In JAPNA, the reader will find timely, peer-reviewed content aimed at a wide audience of psychiatric nurses, advancing scholarship through:
- Education, clinical, and practice-focused articles
- Original research articles
- Features on topics such as health policy and psychopharmacology
- Significant news from the American Psychiatric Nurses Association
Practice-focused articles address important topics on:
- Psychiatric disorders and mental health, including substance use and trauma
- Regulatory issues for psychiatric mental health nurses
- Staffing and other issues relevant to psychiatric mental health nurses
- Community mental health practice and emergency care
JAPNA publishes a blend of unique features and authoritative content making it one of the most respected publications in psychiatric nursing. Subscribe today or recommend this important journal to your institutional librarian! If your library subscribes, you and your colleagues will receive online access for FREE!
The Journal also occasionally complements its broad coverage with supplements (with continuing education credit) on a particular mental health condition, including current treatments and management strategies.
As a primary source of evidence-based and innovative scholarship for practice, education, administration, and research in psychiatric nursing, the editors of the Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association are committed to integrating principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the journal’s editorial and review processes. We recognize that to publish scholarship that contributes to greater understanding and promotion of health equity in psychiatric-mental health care, our authors, reviewers, and editorial board members must reflect the composition of the population we serve. We are committed to outreach and professional development to support inclusion for authors, reviewers, and editorial board members and strongly encourage authors to address and recommend innovative solutions
pertaining to diversity, equity, and inclusion in their submitted manuscripts.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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The Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (JAPNA) is the official journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and has the largest readership of psychiatric-mental health nurse academics and scientists, at RN and advanced practice levels, of any nursing specialty journal. A bimonthly peer-reviewed journal, JAPNA serves as a mechanism for global dissemination and dialogue among nurses and health care professionals involved in the science, education, and service delivery related to mental health and substance use conditions. The main goal of the journal is to publish scholarship (original research, review, and practice-focused articles that include continuing education credit, as well as brief reports, quality improvement, and discussion articles, and letters to the editors) that contributes both to knowledge development and continuum of care from mental health promotion and mental illness prevention to psychiatric treatment and recovery at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of prevention across the lifespan.
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| Michelle DeCoux Hampton, RN, PhD, MS | Stanford Health Care, Menlo Park, CA, USA |
| Kristen Overstreet, BA | Origin Editorial, LLC, Arvada, CO, USA |
| Angel Johann Solorzano Martinez, PhD, DNP, MSN, MBA, RN, CNS, PMHNP-BC | Samuel Merritt University, San Mateo, CA, USA |
| Linda Beeber, PhD, RN, CS | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA |
| Genevieve E. Chandler, PhD, RN | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA |
| Jeanne Clement, EdD, APRN, PMHCNS- BC, FAAN | The Ohio University, Columbus, OH, USA |
| Claire Draucker, PhD, RN, FAAN | Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA |
| Karen Foli, PhD, RN, FAAN | Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA |
| Carla Groh, PhD, PMHNP-BC, FAAN | University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI, USA |
| Sara Jones, PhD, APRN, PMHNP-BC, FAANP | McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA, USA |
| Laura G. Leahy, DrNP, APRN, PMH-CNS/FNP, CARN-AP, FAANP, FAAN | APN Solutions, LLC, Sewell, NJ, USA |
| Vanndy Loth, DNP, MPH, PMHNP-BC | AACI, San Jose, CA, USA |
| Karen Jennings Mathis, PhD, APRN, PMHNP-BC, FAED | University of Rhode Island College of Nursing, Providence, RI, USA |
| Mary Moller, DNP, ARNP, APRN, PMHCNS-BC, CPRP, FAAN | Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA, USA |
| Dorothy Moore, DNP, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC | San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, USA |
| Kathryn Phillips, PhD, APRN | Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, USA |
| Barbara Warren, PhD, RN, APRN-CNS, PMH-BC, FNAP, FAAN | The Ohio State University, College of Nursing, Columbus, OH, USA |
| Kathleen Wheeler, PhD, PMHCNS, PMHNP, FAAN | Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, USA |
| Barbara Wolfe, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN | University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA |
| Joyce M. Shea, DNSc, APRN, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN | Professor Emerita, Fairfield University, Prospect, CT, USA |
| Allyson Neal, DNP, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC, CPNP | University of Tennessee, Knoxville Assistant Dean, Graduate Programs, Knoxville, TN, USA |
| Lora Peppard, PhD, DNP, PMHNP-BC | Director of ADAPT and Deputy Director for Treatment & Prevention, Washington/Baltimore High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA); Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (part-time), Marymount University, Ashburn, VA, USA |
| Constance Ann Noll, DNP, MA, PMHNP-BC, CRNP | Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health System, Manchester, MD, USA |
| Beth C. Smith, DNP, CRNP, PMHNP-BC | PMHNP, Department of Medicine, Psychiatry Division, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple University Health System Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Jane Abanes, PhD, DNP, MSN/Ed, PMHCNS/NP-BC | Assistant Clinical Professor, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Carol Essenmacher, DNP, RN, PMHCNS-BC, NCTTP | Assistant Professor of Nursing, Saginaw Valley State University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA |
| Erica Joseph, PhD, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC, FNP-C | Adult Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner – Co-Team Lead, Mental Health Intensive Case Management, Southeast Louisiana Veterans Healthcare System (SLVHCS) Plaquemine, LA, USA |
| Deborah Salani, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC, NE-BC | Associate Professor of Clinical/Director of the Post Graduate PMHNP Program, University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies, Miami, FL, USA |
| Lisa Deffenbaugh Nguyen, MS, CAE | Executive Director, American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Falls Church, VA, USA |
| Geraldine S. Pearson, PhD, PMH-CNS, APRN, FAAN | (2015-2025) |
| Karen Farchaus Stein, PhD, RN, FAAN | (2005-2015) |
| Nikki S. Polis, RN, PhD | (1995–2005) |
| Grayce M. Sills, RN, PhD, FAAN | (1995-2005) |
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