In 2011, the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) and the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses (ISPN) appointed a joint task force to begin the review and revision of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, published in 2007 by the American Nurses Association (ANA, 2007). The taskforce members were comprised of psychiatric-mental health nursing clinical administrators, staff nurses, nursing faculty, and psychiatric advanced practice registered nurses working in psychiatric facilities and the community. This taskforce convened in July 2011 to conduct an analysis of the existing document and begin crafting sections incorporating the results of the analysis. In accordance with ANA recommendations, this document reflects the
template language of the most recent publication of ANA nursing standards, Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, Second Edition (ANA, 2010).