Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses
Army experience conducting comprehensive assessments, providing psychotherapy, managing medications, and implementing behavioral health care plans closely matches civilian advanced psychiatric nursing.
How to prepare: Compare your current qualifications with the target state's board of nursing requirements for psychiatric advanced practice, including RN licensure, accredited graduate education, national certification, and APRN licensure.
What the civilian work involves
- Assess patients' mental and physical status, based on the presenting symptoms and complaints.
- Document patients' medical and psychological histories, physical assessment results, diagnoses, treatment plans, prescriptions, or outcomes.
- Write prescriptions for psychotropic medications as allowed by state regulations and collaborative practice agreements.