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The Air Force has a tremendous variety of career fields available to officers —each with unique challenges and rewards. If you know exactly what you're looking for, use the keyword search for a list of job titles and descriptions. Or, if you're interested in seeing what the Air Force has to offer, browse the different career fields in the pull-down menu.
Mental Health Nurse
Duties and Responsibilities
The Mental Health Nurse works with individuals, families, groups and communities to assess mental health needs, develop diagnoses and plan, implement and evaluate nursing care. Responsibilities include designing and implementing programs that foster mental health, assess dysfunction, assist individuals to regain or improve their coping abilities, and prevent further disability, as well as monitoring patients undergoing detoxification from alcohol and drugs.
Mental Health Nurses identify community resources and guide individuals and families in their use. They also provide leadership and clinical assistance to other nursing personnel and encourage staff participation in community programs promoting population mental health.
Civilian Opportunities
Civilian Nurse
Duties and Responsibilities
People are often surprised to learn the variety of jobs open to RNs. Most familiar is the nurse who works in the hospital caring for patients; however, here are just a few of the other types of opportunities for RNs: working as a sales representative for a company that makes medication or medical equipment; managing a healthcare-related organization; working in the medical publishing field; or working as a coroner.
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