What You'll Do

  • Teach classes in mental health topics, such as stress reduction.
  • Participate in activities aimed at professional growth and development, including conferences or continuing education activities.
  • Direct or provide home health services.
  • Monitor the use and status of medical and pharmaceutical supplies.
  • Develop practice protocols for mental health problems, based on review and evaluation of published research.
  • Develop, implement, or evaluate programs such as outreach activities, community mental health programs, and crisis situation response activities.
  • Treat patients for routine physical health problems.
  • Write prescriptions for psychotropic medications as allowed by state regulations and collaborative practice agreements.
  • Refer patients requiring more specialized or complex treatment to psychiatrists, primary care physicians, or other medical specialists.
  • Provide routine physical health screenings to detect or monitor problems such as heart disease and diabetes.

Essential Skills

Active Listening 4.38/5
Social Perceptiveness 4.25/5
Speaking 4.12/5
Reading Comprehension 4.0/5
Writing 4.0/5
Critical Thinking 4.0/5
Monitoring 4.0/5
Judgment and Decision Making 4.0/5
Time Management 4.0/5
Active Learning 3.88/5
Complex Problem Solving 3.88/5
Learning Strategies 3.75/5

Career Fit Overview

Use this summary to understand the kind of profile this role rewards. It helps you judge whether this career looks like a stronger match than your current role, a nearby move worth exploring, or a broader path to compare more seriously.

Top passions

  • Analyst: Investigating problems and finding patterns keeps you engaged.
  • Helper: Supporting people and making a difference matters to you.
  • Organizer: Bringing order to data and processes satisfies you.

Common styles

Attention to Detail, Empathy, Dependability, Integrity, Self-Control

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Key Abilities

This career demands strong capabilities in the following areas:

Problem Sensitivity 4.62/5
Oral Comprehension 4.25/5
Oral Expression 4.25/5
Written Comprehension 4.12/5
Deductive Reasoning 4.12/5
Written Expression 4.0/5
Inductive Reasoning 4.0/5
Speech Recognition 4.0/5

Technologies & Tools

AUDIT-C Beck Anxiety Inventory Beck Depression Inventory Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale BPRS Nursing Modification California Verbal Learning Test Category Fluency Test Children's Depression Inventory Controlled Oral Word Association Task Electroconvulsive therapy equipment Epic HER Geriatric Depression Scale Hendrich Falls Risk Model Invivo Data EPX ePRO Management System Medical condition coding software Microsoft Access Microsoft Excel Microsoft Office software Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Word Millon Behavioral Medicine Diagnostic

Work Environment & Strengths

Common Strengths for This Career

  • Attention to Detail (High importance: 4.99/5)
  • Empathy (High importance: 4.98/5)
  • Dependability (High importance: 4.91/5)
  • Integrity (High importance: 4.79/5)
  • Self-Control (High importance: 4.7/5)

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How to Become One

This career requires extensive preparation, typically including a graduate degree (Master's or Doctoral) and several years of experience. Most professionals in this field have invested significant time in education and training.

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Also Known As

This career is known by many different job titles across industries. Here are all the variations:

Adult PMHNP (Adult Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner) Adult Psychiatric Mental Health APRN (Adult Psychiatric Mental Health Advanced Practice Registered Nurse) Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse APN (Advanced Practice Nurse) Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist (BC PMH-CNS) Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (Family Psychiatric Mental Health NP) Mental Health Nurse PMH-APRN (Psychiatric Mental Health Advanced Practice Registered Nurse) PMHNP (Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner) Psychiatric APN (Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nurse) Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist (Psychiatric CNS) Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse (PMH Nurse) Psychiatric NP (Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner) Psychiatric Nurse Psychiatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Psychiatric Provider Psychiatric RN (Psychiatric Registered Nurse) Psychiatric-Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist (PMH-CNS) Psychiatry APRN (Psychiatry Advanced Practice Registered Nurse) Travel Psychiatric RN (Travel Psychiatric Registered Nurse)

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