Ethical and Legal Implications for the PMHNP

Ethical and Legal Implications for the PMHNP

The PMHNP needs to analyze the ethical and legal implications of psychotherapy and the other aspects of the PMHNP role in order to provide safe and effective care.

The Standards of Mental Health Nursing & Standards of Professional Practice outline the basic competencies for all psychiatric mental health nurses with additional competencies for advanced practice nurses. For this assignment you will review the Standards of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Practice, Standards of Professional Practice, Standard 7: Ethics, and address the following:

Identify two psychiatric mental health registered nurse competencies you found meaningful/important and give an example of a practice intervention for each of the points you identified.
Identify two additional competencies for the psychiatric-mental health registered nurse you found meaningful/important and give an example of a practice intervention for each of the points you identified.