- Psychosocial and physical assessment and diagnosis
- Emergency psychiatric services
- Treatment and management of patient care
- Short and long term individual, couple, group and family psychotherapy
- Bereavement and crisis counseling
- Mental health promotion services such as smoking cessation, weight management
- Community mental health education in areas such as parenting skills, suicide prevention, teenage pregnancy, domestic violence and rape prevention
Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nurses also:
- Perform comprehensive psychiatric evaluations including health histories, psychosocial assessments, physical examinations, and differential diagnosis
- Teach effective coping and stress management skills
- Order and interpret laboratory tests and other diagnostic studies
- Employ biological interventions including nutrition and exercise counseling and the prescription of psychiatric medications
- Prescribe and monitor psychiatric medications
- Do case management of acute or chronic mental health problems
Individual needs and goals, along with the method of treatment influence length of care. Therapy can be short term as in crisis intervention or longer for psychiatric illness or personal growth.