Trends in psychiatric mental health nursing education

Eighty-five program coordinators responded to a survey concerning Psychiatric Mental Health (PMH) graduate-nursing education. Twelve of these 85 program coordinators reported their programs had closed. Data from the remaining 73 indicated that the number of students entering PMH graduate programs is small. In the past 2 years, most programs have undergone some redesign. A significant curricular trend is the inclusion of pharmacology, physical assessment, and pathophysiology. Another trend is the shift to a Nurse Practitioner (NP)-type curriculum. PMH curricula seem increasingly modeled on a primary mental health care model and training in a broad base of skills.     

Media as a teaching tool in psychiatric nursing education

The authors describe a course in psychiatric nursing where media in the form of literature, film, and music were used as teaching strategies. The purpose was to enhance students' sensitivity to the personal experiences of psychiatric patients while also broadening students' understanding of mental illness and the institutions developed to treat it. Students' critical reading, thinking, and analytic skills were cultivated, along with introspection and self-reflection.     

Nurses' roles in systematic patient education sessions in psychiatric nursing

The purpose of this study is to gain understanding of nurses' expectations of their roles in systematic patient education in psychiatric inpatient care. Qualitative design was used in the study. The data were collected through interviews with nurses participating in the implementation of systematic patient education (information technology (IT) based patient education n= 14, or conventional patient education n= 16). The data were analysed using inductive content analysis. The analysis showed that nurses had different roles in both IT-based and conventional patient education. Nurses acted as learners, advisors, collaborators, teachers or limiters. The nurses tailored the role in each session according to the patients' interest and mental status. We can conclude that nurses working in psychiatric hospitals have different roles in systematic patient education and they are ready and willing to tailor their roles according to patients' individual needs. Information technology should be adopted without delay as a new treatment method in daily practice in psychiatric services. It has potential to support equality between patient and nurse in secluded environments.     

对我省精神科护理教育的分析及对策

目的了解精神科护理教育现状并分析其原因,为精神科护理队伍培养和人才使用提供科学依据。方法采用问卷调查形式,对我省16个医疗机构的895名精神科护理人员的学历教育和职称结构进行调查。结果护理队伍具有中专、大专、本科学历的护士分别占62.01%、28.94%、2.68%;具有护师、主管护师、副主任护师职称的护士分别占30.61%、29.94%、0.67%。结论精神科护理队伍学历教育水平偏低,职称结构不合理,缺乏临床科研教学人员。加强精神科护理队伍人才培养,提高精神科护士专业技术水平是当务之急。     

Applications of simulation technology in psychiatric mental health nursing education

The purpose of this paper is to review the use of simulation in education across the health professionals, to describe the development and implementation of innovative simulation techniques for an undergraduate psychiatric mental-health nursing course, and to identify lessons learned and future directions for successful simulation experiences in psychiatric nursing.     

Continuing education in psychiatric nursing: a reflection on concepts

The concern with continuing education programs that prepare nurses to work in psychiatric nursing led us to conduct this study, the first one on the "development of psychiatric and mental health nursing personnel" research line. Its objective is to make a reflection on the concepts of continuing education, in-service and permanent, found in recent nursing education literature. To carry out the literature review of the concepts we reviewed the MEDLINE and LILACS data bases, theses and dissertations and a number of classical titles on the theme. After the analysis of the concepts and discussions with experts, we concluded that the continuing in-service education denomination is the one that presents more consonance with the authors and experts that were consulted, as well as the one that better meets the demands of knowledge in the area of psychiatric nursing towards the quality of assistance.