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How Nurse Practitioner Authority Varies By State

Iris Telehealth

While NPs are essential to addressing the provider shortage and improving the patient experience, they’re also indispensable when it comes to mental health treatment. The type of NP working in the mental health field is called a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner or a PMHNP.

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Healthcare Consumerism – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Care models will continue to stray from historically accepted methods of treatment as technology advances to support mental health and chronic condition management and improve care coordination. In 2023, digital doorways will help improve access to care, providing patients with the right care at the right time.

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Moving the Needle at Providence/St. Joseph’s Digital Innovation Group

Digital Health Today

As a psychiatrist, I am interested in addressing the treatment gaps we are facing in mental health care. Aaron: We have been trialing a couple of CBT programs in primary care to give people immediate access. So anywhere that you access care, you should also be able to access mental and behavioral health.

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How Virtual Providers Benefit from Behavioral Health Integration

Iris Telehealth

Working with primary care providers, pediatricians, and nurses has not only helped the clients have an in-house therapist referral, but it also helps educate them on what therapy can help with. There are certain guidelines, and I can’t practice outside my scope. Therapy is very different than the medical side.

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Clinician Corner: Meet Courtney Bearden, PMHNP

Iris Telehealth

Working for an organization that prioritizes patient care and prioritizes their clinicians was eye-opening. I came from a background in community mental health. It wasn’t a for-profit, private practice environment that I came from – it was from public health. I don’t think we can close the floodgates.

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What to Do When Your Clients Don’t Attend Sessions

TheraNest

Collaborate with Other Professionals In certain cases where therapists observe consistent dropout patterns, collaboration with other professionals, such as primary care physicians or psychiatrists, may be necessary.

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What to Do When Your Clients Don’t Attend Sessions

TheraNest

Collaborate with Other Professionals In certain cases where therapists observe consistent dropout patterns, collaboration with other professionals, such as primary care physicians or psychiatrists, may be necessary.