American Psychiatric Nurses Association

Conferences - the association holds two national conferences each year: the clinical psychopharmacology institute ("cpi") conference in june and the annual conference in october. Cpi focuses on complex clinical issues addressing the most current practices and insights on clinical psychopharmacology. The annual conference is the premiere event for psychiatric nursing and is held in a new location each year to encourage regional participation. Apna recognizes outstanding contributions to the association and psychiatric nursing through the presentation of its annual awards.

Membership services - expenses associated with member services provide for the maintenance of the membership database, and the presence of a national network that enables members to communicate with each other in the development of standards and policies to advance the discipline of psychiatric-mental health nursing within the field of mental illness and substance use disorders.