Join us in New Orleans for ISPN 2025 Annual Conference,
March 19-22, 2025
Advancing Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing:
Innovation, Practice, and Culture
Sponsorship, Exhibit, and Product Theater Opportunities are available!
Find out more here!
A Message from ISPN President, Barbara Peterson
 The impact of the U.S. presidential election will be felt across the globe and is weighing heavily on many of our minds. It’s a challenging time for many psychiatric nurses to keep showing up and supporting our patients and communities. We must continue to do that. Our work transcends political divisions because mental health touches people of all ages and from all walks of life. We contribute to the health of society through supporting patients through emotional, relational, financial, and political crises. We provide healing through treatment, education, advocacy, and service. Psychiatric nurses across the globe play a crucial role in giving voice to those who are marginalized socially and politically, and we need to keep showing up. I hope you each know how valuable your work is. Our work can help cultivate greater resilience, and help people heal, grow, and thrive together. And we must not lose hope. Remember to treat yourself with gentle kindness and persist in meaningful self-care.
ISPN Mission:
To promote advanced psychiatric-mental health nursing leadership in practice, research, education, and policy worldwide.
Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
Official Journal of ISPN
A subscription to Archives of Psychiatric Nursing is a benefit of membership.
ISPN Gift of Membership
We encourage you to think of a student—or two—whose membership you might sponsor by paying the student's first year of ISPN membership dues of $35.
A special way to reach out to graduates as well is to support their entry into ISPN by sponsoring their first year of ISPN membership dues of $150.
The IMIN Mentoring Program
The ISPN Mentoring Initiative Navigator Program, or IMIN, is a capacity building project started in 2014 and sponsored by the ISPN Membership Committee. The IMIN model was designed by Dr. Beth Bonham with two aims: to increase an involved membership in ISPN by connecting new members with seasoned ISPN members; and to facilitate leadership succession planning by mentoring members into leadership positions.
The seasoned ISPN member who volunteers to mentor through participation in IMIN may meet the new member initially at the annual conference and share time with the new member that may include meeting for coffee, planning dinner, and introducing the new member to the wider network of ISPN members. The mentor/mentee model can be implemented in any way that is comfortable for the dyad and for any length of time the dyad decides – activities may range from an occasional telephone or email check in to a structured clinical supervision. IMIN is a voluntary program for any members as well as a pathway to quickly connect new members with the larger organization.
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