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Advanced practice psychiatric mental health nursing, finding our core: the therapeutic relationship in 21st century
Suzanne Perraud1, Kathleen R Delaney, Linnea Carlson-Sabelli
1Rush University College of Nursing, Chicago, IL, USA. Suzanne_Perraud@rush.edu
Topic:
Increasingly, students from various professional backgrounds are enrolling in Psychiatric Mental Health (PMH) Nursing graduate programs, especially at the post-master's level. Faculty must educate these students to provide increasingly complex care while socializing them as PMH advanced practitioners.
Purpose:
To present how one online program is addressing these issues by reasserting the centrality of the relationship and by assuring it has at least equal footing with the application of a burgeoning knowledge base of neurobiology of mental illness.
Sources:
Published literature from nursing and psychology.
Conclusions:
The PMH graduate faculty believes that they have developed strategies to meet this challenge and to help build a PMH workforce that will maintain the centrality of the relationship in PMH practice.
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