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Policy, Innovation, and Diversity: A Blueprint for Mental Health Transformation, An Issue of Nursing Clinics

  • 1st Edition, Volume 61-1 - February 6, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Connie Braybrook, Pamela Wall
  • Language: English

In this issue of Nursing Clinics of North America, guest editors Connie Braybrook and Pamela Wall bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Policy, Innovation, and Diver… Read more

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In this issue of Nursing Clinics of North America, guest editors Connie Braybrook and Pamela Wall bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Policy, Innovation, and Diversity: A Blueprint for Mental Health Transformation. Transforming mental health care is a top global priority, with the primary care nurse at its core. This special issue in mental health represents a vision of the future of mental health nursing with the main aim of optimizing health outcomes and reducing the disease burden.

Key features

  • Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics, including historical perspectives and mental health nursing: past, present, and future; AI and mental health; nutrition and mental health: emerging evidence; cultural competency and implicit bias: decreasing barriers to Native American and First Nation mental health care; and more
  • Provides in-depth clinical reviews on policy, innovation, and diversity: a blueprint for mental health transformation, offering actionable insights for clinical practice
  • Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews

Readership

Nursing

Table of contents

Bridging the Gap: Pretravel Mental Health Screening and Policy in Nursing Practice
Historical Perspectives and Mental Health Nursing: Where We Have Been, Where We are Today, and the Vision for the Future
Quantity or Quality: Clinical Preceptorships in Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Programs
Unified and Portable Nurse Licensure for Psychiatric Mental Health Registered Nurses: Utilization of Psychiatric Mental Health Registered Nurses to Decrease Barriers to Mental Health Care, Bridge Access to Care, and Improve Patient Outcomes
Mental Health Nursing and a Culture of Safety, Prevention, and Management: A Perspective from a Forensic Lens
Application of Milieu Based Principles in Primary Care
Ketamine-Prazosin Combined Pharmacotherapy in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Alcohol Use Disorder: Targeting Complementary Neurobiological Mechanisms
Glucagon-like-peptide-1 and Mental Health: The Unexpected Outcomes
Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health: Promises and Perils
Nutrition and Mental Health: Emerging Evidence for Nursing Practice
Expanding Beneficiary Access to Mental Health Support Utilizing a Digital Health Application: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Coach
The Diversity Imperative: A Comprehensive Approach to Transforming Mental Health Through Inclusive Practice and Policy
Deploying Solutions: Tackling Barriers to Pediatric Mental Health Care for Military- Connected Children in Primary Care
Cultural Competency and Implicit Bias: Decreasing Barriers to Native American and First Nation Mental Health Care

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 61-1
  • Published: February 6, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

CB

Connie Braybrook

Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA

PW

Pamela Wall

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Rosalind Franklin University, North Chicago, IL, USA