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Top Nursing Specialties in Demand for 2025

NexNurse

Opportunities: Mental health nurses can work in inpatient and outpatient settings, and may specialize in areas such as addiction, child and adolescent mental health, or geriatric psychiatry. Nurse Educators Nurse educators are responsible for training and mentoring the next generation of nurses.

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How Nurse Practitioners Are Filling Gaps in Primary Care

Post University

Specializations and Continuing Education In addition to completing the foundational education required to become an NP, aspiring nurse practitioners must choose a population-specific focus and meet national certification requirements that correspond to that specialization.

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Naloxone education for nursing staff

American Nurse

The intervention The hospital network partners with a multispecialty provider group, which includes several post-graduate APP training programs, including a psychiatry fellowship. Nurses received continuing education credit for participating. The fellows must participate in a QI project before graduation.

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Peer support and nurse well-being

American Nurse

We make this distinction in recognition of the stigma associated with therapy and psychiatry that still exists among many of our colleagues. No single gold standard in peer support training exists, but all peer supporters require rigorous initial training as well as on-going, continuing education.

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USAHS 2024 Mental Health Summit: Enhancing Behavioral Healthcare Through Collaboration

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

As an institution accredited by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), USAHS offers IACET Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for learning events such as the summit, ensuring participants can apply their learning to enhance their professional practice.

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Simple Ways to Prepare for the Boards

Board Vitals - Nursing

BoardVitals offers full-length practice exams in more than 20 medical specialties, including pediatric, psychiatry, family medicine, and surgery. Those preparing for a medical specialty exam get detailed explanations with each question, must-know answers for the boards, videos and multiple choice options.

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How to Become a Physician Assistant

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Physician assistants (PAs) not only enjoy a promising salary and the capacity to transform the lives of others; they also have the opportunity to work in a range of dynamic and rewarding settings and select a specialty that suits their greatest interests, from pediatrics to psychiatry. 1 Ready to become a PA? Well worth it? Absolutely.