How do they match: Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses

  • 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.
  • Provide routine physical health screenings to detect or monitor problems such as heart disease and diabetes.
  • Refer patients requiring more specialized or complex treatment to psychiatrists, primary care physicians, or other medical specialists.
  • Treat patients for routine physical health problems.

  • Examine patients to assess general physical condition.