We acknowledge that Manitoba is on the original lands of the Dakota, Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, Dené, Inuit and Métis Nation. We acknowledge that the College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of Manitoba is located on Treaty One territory. We respect the Treaties that were made on these territories, and we acknowledge the harms and mistakes of the past. We dedicate ourselves to moving forward in partnership with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities in a spirit of reconciliation and collaboration.
What RPNs do
Registered Psychiatric Nurses (RPNs) work with clients whose primary care needs are related to mental health, addictions, and neurodevelopmental disabilities.
Their education and experience prepares psychiatric nurses to recognize the complex relationship between emotional, developmental, physical and mental health – as well as the role that social factors, culture and spirituality play in illness and recovery.
What RPNs do day to day, depends on where they work. Some examples of where RPNs work include:
- Acute care hospitals and clinics
- Child and adolescent treatment programs
- Long term psychiatric facilities
- Crisis teams and suicide prevention
- Community mental health programs
- Corrections – institutional & community
- Palliative Care
- Forensics
- Private practice, family therapy and programs
- Substance abuse/addiction programs
- Long-term, geriatric facilities and home care
- Residential and community programs for counselling
- Social services, child services, youth centres
- School mental health programs
- Community outreach
- Education programs
Learn more about RPN Scope of Practice and find out more about the many ways RPNs contribute to the health of our community by reading profiles of RPNs in Practice.
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