Competencies for Mental Health Nurses in Manitoba have been developed to promote realistic performance expectation for the average beginning practitioner of mental health nursing because the practice of mental health nursing, even for the new graduate may occur in a variety of settings ranging from institutions to the community. The level at which the mental health nurse functions and the types of activities in which the mental health nurse engages depend on the prescribed legal limits of practice, the qualifications of the mental health nurse and the practice setting as well as personal competence and initiative (The Registered Psychiatric Nurses’ Association of Manitoba, 1993). The competencies for MHN in Manitoba are based from the concepts
