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Generating ideas for teaching mental health nursing
Author(s) -
McAllister M.,
Ryan M.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1365-2850
pISSN - 1351-0126
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2850.1997.00026.x
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , mental health , maturity (psychological) , mental health nursing , repertoire , psychology , medical education , subject (documents) , nursing , mental health care , nurse education , medicine , computer science , psychiatry , developmental psychology , physics , artificial intelligence , library science , acoustics
University teachers who prepare mental health nurses require a variety of teaching techniques to encourage students to engage with the subject matter and to prepare for unknown future problems and dilemmas that they must resolve. Mental health nursing requires the development of specific discipline knowledge, intellectual skills, such as the ability to think laterally and make ethical decisions, and personal attributes, such as maturity and tolerance, as well as practical experience in collaborative care. This article offers a number of strategies that teachers may use in their classes to promote the development of these mental health nursing skills. Other teachers might use these examples to trigger the development of their own repertoire of teaching skills for beginning mental health nurses.