title: The future of psychiatric/mental health nursing.
abstract: The future of psychiatric/mental health nursing will reflect expansion of services to the elderly and chronic mentally ill. Providers of services and their reimbursement will also expand. If the specialty is to survive, changes in the undergraduate nursing curriculum must be addressed so that a larger cohort of nurses select graduate education in psychiatric/mental health nursing.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003479:Curriculum; D005544:Forecasting; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing / Q000628:therapy; D008605:Mental Health Services; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000639:trends*; D012380:Role; D000078329:Workforce