Preparing for prescriptive privileges: a standard for the psychiatric-mental health preceptorship.
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.
Hales
Ann
A
Department of Nursing, New Mexico State University, USA. ANHALES@nmsu.edu
Karshmer
Judith F
JF
Williams
Jacquelyn
J
Mann
Alison Smalley
AS
Robbins
Leslie K
LK
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