Voices, Not Stethoscopes: A Call to Transform Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Education

As a former hospital administrator who transitioned into the role of nurse educator, I found comfort in the rather predictable structure of nursing education as clearly bounded by the didactic classroom, nursing resource lab (NRL), and clinical settings. As opposed to other disciplines that emphasized traditional skills-based instruction, I noted a curious gap in pedagogical strategies to explore psychiatric-mental health (PHM) content in the NRL. Through networking, I discovered that PMH nursing was historically, though inaccurately, viewed as one of nursing ’s “softer” specialties and thus not typically included in the NRL scheduling plan.
Source: Archives of Psychiatric Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research