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Media as a teaching tool in psychiatric nursing education
Barbra Mann Wall1, Eileen K Rossen
1School of Nursing, Johnson Hall of Nursing #224, Purdue University, 502 N. University Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2069, USA. bwall@nursing.purdue.edu
Nurse Educator
|January 17, 2004
Abstract:
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.