In 2011 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM)
released their landmark report, Future of Nursing 2020, calling for nurses to serve as “full partners” in shaping the future of the healthcare
system and laying out a series of goals for the profession to obtain by the year 2020
(
Institute of Medicine (IOM), 2011
). In a time of rising rates of childhood mental health disorders (
O'Connell et al., 2009
), including an increase in youth suicide (
Hedegaard et al., 2018
), the need for strong nursing leadership and innovation in healthcare is not only
a professional obligation, but a moral one. In this paper, we reflect on the ways
that psychiatric-mental health nursing has yet to achieve the Future of Nursing 2020 goals as they apply to child and adolescent mental health, and offer a starting point
for conversation about what goals need to be set for the decade ahead. Namely, we
focus on recommendation 1 (remove scope of practice barriers), recommendation 2 (expanding
opportunities for nurses to lead and diffuse collaborative improvement efforts), recommendation
3 (implement nurse residency programs), recommendation 7 (prepare and enable nurses
to lead change to advance health), and recommendation 8 (build an infrastructure for
the collection and analysis of inter-professional health care workforce data). We
propose that Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioners (PMHNPs) in particular
should play a more active role in increasing access to more “advanced” level mental
health care in pediatric primary care, and should align their professional, educational,
and legislative goals towards that end.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Article Info
Publication History
Published online: July 17, 2020
Accepted:
July 15,
2020
Received in revised form:
July 15,
2020
Received:
October 31,
2019
Footnotes
☆This research was supported by the T32 Research on Vulnerable Women, Children and Families (T32NR007100) through the National Institute for Nursing Research.
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