How does specialty education fit into all of this? Isn’t psychiatric nursing a specialty?
For the purposes of this Model, psychiatric mental health nursing is being defined as a population. So, for basic licensure an advanced practice nurse will need to have been educated in a role and a population. A specialty is similar to what we often term a subspecialty. Examples are child/adolescent psych, geropsych, substance abuse, etc. This would signify further education above the basic level.
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