API welcomes three nursing schools to our facility.

  1. Grossmont College
  2. Maric College
  3. Imperial Valley College

This program enables the future Nurses to experience and learn more about psychiatric patients and gives them a strong foundation to assist them in pursuing a Nursing care that specializes in Psychiatry.

As part of the on-going educational process, the Nursing Department provides weekly in-services that include some of the following:
• medication updates
• medical disorders and diagnoses
• psychiatric disorders
• treatment planning process
• documentation

We also hire student nurses who are interested in psychiatric nursing as Mental Health workers. This enables them to experience and learn more about psychiatric patients and gives them a strong foundation to assist them in pursuing a career in psychiatric nursing.

API also has a new graduate program for nurses.

 Debbie Crutchfield, R.N.

Director of Nursing

619.667.6044

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