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Educational needs of psychiatric nurses for continuing competency.

Kimberley D Ryan-Nicholls1

  • 1School of Health Studies, Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada.

Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing
|October 2, 2003
PubMed
Summary

Psychiatric nurses are navigating evolving mental healthcare roles and need clear educational strategies to ensure their continuing competence. Ensuring achievable competency requirements requires understanding and support from registered psychiatric nurses.

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Area of Science:

  • Nursing
  • Mental Health Care
  • Healthcare Systems

Background:

  • Diversified practice settings necessitate increased autonomy for psychiatric nurses.
  • There is a growing need for psychiatric nurses to demonstrate advanced competency in their roles.
  • Psychiatric nurses' perceptions of changes in mental health care were explored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To understand psychiatric nurses' views on changes in mental health care.
  • To identify proactive strategies for psychiatric nurses to engage in healthcare changes.
  • To explore educational needs for maintaining continuing competency.

Main Methods:

  • Focus groups were conducted with psychiatric nurses.
  • Participants were from various Regional Health Authorities in Manitoba, Canada.

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Main Results:

  • Psychiatric nurses are concerned about balancing continuing competence requirements with a changing healthcare system.
  • Challenges in the evolving mental healthcare system impact nurses' ability to demonstrate competence.

Conclusions:

  • Implementing continuing competence programs requires understanding and buy-in from registered psychiatric nurses.
  • Programs must be perceived as reasonable and achievable by the nursing membership.
  • Gaining support is essential for the successful implementation of continuing competence initiatives.