Registered Psychiatric Nurses currently provide quality services to persons with mental illnesses or emotional disorders and are recognized as the mainstay of community mental health services in Manitoba. We believe that this responsibility extends to advocacy for quality services for these individuals. RPNs are active participants in planning and implementing reform of the mental health service delivery system. As work environments change in response to these reforms, it becomes increasingly important that there is a match between the services provided and the skills of the provider. Educational programs for RPNs have accordingly kept pace with changing provider roles, making RPNs ideally suited for the provision of a wide range of mental health services.
Quality services are vitally dependent on human resources.
We believe that all professionals and paraprofessionals providing mental health services require specific knowledge of mental illnesses and emotional disorders and to have demonstrated skills in the provision of those services. This page last updated March 17, 1999.