The role of psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners in improving mental and behavioral health care delivery for children and adolescents in multiple settings

In 2011 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released their landmark report, Future of Nursing 2020, calling for nurses to serve as “full partners” in shaping the future of the healthcare system and laying out a series of goals for the profession to obtain by the year 2020 (Institute of Medicine (IOM), 2011). In a time of rising rates of childhood mental health disorders (O'Connell et al., 2009), including an increase in you th suicide (Hedegaard et al., 2018), the need for strong nursing leadership and innovation in healthcare is not only a professional obligation, but a moral one.
Source: Archives of Psychiatric Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Source Type: research