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Published on: June 21, 2010
Mental Health Nursing Education: An Instructor's View
1Lynnetta Loveland, MSN, RN, PMHNP-BC, CMCN, Ivy Tech Community College, Columbus, IN, USA nitaloveland@gmail.com.
Abstract:
If you knew no one with a mental illness, what would mold your perceptions of someone with a mental illness? A movie character, a television actor, a description from a friend? Each of these explanations has been given to me by nursing students beginning their mental health nursing clinical rotation. Reconsideration of the limited amount of mental health education in nursing school is urgent. As we become more engrossed as a society in television and movies, the result appears to be a deceptive idea of what true mental illness entails. This piece shares personal insight from a mental health nursing educator and the transformation she witnesses in her students after a mental health clinical rotation.
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