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Advanced Practice Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Finding Our Core: The Therapeutic Relationship in 21st Century
Author(s) -
Perraud Suzanne,
Delaney Kathleen R.,
CarlsonSabelli Linnea,
Johnson Mary E.,
Shephard Rebekah,
Paun Olimpia
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
perspectives in psychiatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6163
pISSN - 0031-5990
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6163.2006.00097.x
Subject(s) - centrality , workforce , mental health , nursing , mental health nursing , doctor of nursing practice , mental illness , advanced practice nurses , psychology , medicine , medical education , health care , psychiatry , nurse education , mathematics , combinatorics , economics , economic growth
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.