The purpose of this DNP quality improvement project was to facilitate the development of the role of the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP ) within a ru [...]

The Unity Center for Behavioral Health (UBH) Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES) opened in February of 2017 using Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) alone [...]

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious, preventable health problem causing significant morbidity and mortality in the United States. Unfortunately, numerous barrie [...]

Measurement-based care (MBC) is an evidence-based practice (EBP) in both physical and mental health. However, MBC is underutilized in community mental health, and resear [...]

Health care organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the impact of patient care on those who provide it. Regular exposure to trauma and stress has both a mental [...]

In the past 15-20 years, interdisciplinary teams have become more widely used in inpatient care settings. Unfortunately, not all outpatient mental health settings have em [...]

This project implemented routine screening for Somatic Symptom Disorders (SSD) in a reverse integration clinic (that is, primary care incorporated into a mental health ce [...]

Behavioral health conditions are common in the United States (U.S.). Nearly 59 million adults, or 25% of Americans, had a mental illness or substance use disorder in the [...]

Prescription opiate overdose is a leading cause of death among adults in the United States. If prescription opiates are the causative factor for multiple drug overdoses e [...]

In obsessive-compulsive disorder, obsessions are repetitive, unwanted and intrusive thoughts, images or urges...was the stove really off? Am I really straight? Did I hit [...]