%0 Journal Article
%T Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing: the Need for a Blended Role
%A Moller
%A D. M. & Haber
%A J
%J Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
%D 1996
%I 
%X The purpose of this article is to advance the debate about whether the NP or the CNS alone should be the predominant advanced practice role in psychiatric-mental health nursing, or whether a blended advanced practice role is more appropriate for meeting the needs of services in the 21st century. We argue that a blended role is most appropriate in moving the psychiatric-mental health nursing specialty forward. The blended advanced practice role retains the excellence of our psychosocial tradition and incorporates the biological perspective of the future.
%K Advanced Nursing Practice
%K Clinical Nursing Specs
%K NP's
%U http://www.nursingworld.org/ojin/tpc1/tpc1_7.htm