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Psychiatric Competency Analysis

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The Psychiatric Mental Health Practitioner (PMHNP) made the Psychiatric competency last 2002. The psychiatric competency included 6 additional criteria aside from the core competency of the general nurses .The 6 criteria includes: the primary care, psychiatric education, credentials of the nurses, the advance practice nursing, the graduate program and employment nurses.

This competencies provides health care to patient primarily includes assessing and diagnosing the patient. The core competency are the essential tool of nurses in order for them to function well, this includes managing the health of the patient, the nurse-patient relationship, nurses function as a teacher, the professional side of the nurse, managing the case of the patient
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