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Martha M Libster1, Leslie Evers
1About the Authors Martha M. Libster, PhD, MSN, APRN-PMHCNS, APHN-BC, FAAN, is founder and executive director, Golden Apple Healing Arts, LLC, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Leslie Evers, MSN, RN, CS, LMFT, is co-founder, Family Therapy Center of Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia. For more information, contact Dr. Libster at Martha@GoldenAppleHealingArts.com .
Background:
The change from a clinical nurse specialist to nurse practitioner model has significantly affected graduate education and practice because of emphasis on the dominant biomedical prescriber role, marginalizing the nurse-psychotherapy and consultation-liaison roles fundamental to quality psychiatric advanced practice nursing practice.
Aim/Method:
We report on a four-year Workforce Development Project supported by an academic-practice partnership to restore formation and skill building of the marginalized roles. Part One focuses on program design, the curriculum for nine specialty courses, and the teaching and learning community approach that promotes engagement, faculty commitment, and preceptor recruitment and retention; the creative faculty staffing model is described.
Results:
The educational frame described includes highlights of teaching/learning strategies drawn from the history of professional formation curriculum rooted in salutogenesis and belonging science, existentialism, solution-focused therapy, modeling and role modeling theory, and Peplau's Interpersonal Relations .
Conclusion:
There is significant interest and commitment to learning the nurse-psychotherapist and consultation-liaison roles.
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