title: Preparing for prescriptive privileges: a standard for the psychiatric-mental health preceptorship.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Establishing a standard for preparation for prescriptive authority for advanced practice psychiatric nurses.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To outline a best practice standard for the clinical and prescriptive authority preceptorship.
  
  
  METHODS
  NACNS and NONPF competencies and practice guidelines.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The authors recommend a clinical preceptorship with planned faculty monitoring, clinical logs, case studies, and group supervision to prepare the psychiatric-mental health advanced practice nurse to serve within the expanded prescribing role.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, New Mexico State University, USA. ANHALES@nmsu.edu
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hales
authors.forename: Judith F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Karshmer
authors.forename: Jacquelyn
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: Alison Smalley
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Mann
authors.forename: Leslie K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Robbins
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000193:education; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011231:Preceptorship; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D014481:United States