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Research and educational resources about mental health nursing.
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Use this Mental Health Nursing collection to compare research questions, settings, and nursing implications across 16 reviewed records. Start with the original source and limitations before carrying a finding into teaching or practice.
Among 204 eighth-semester students at Alexandria University, mean self-reported empathy scores increased from 52.47 to 62.64 immediately after a 15-week psychiatric nursing course. With no comparison group or delayed...
In this 2017 phenomenological dissertation, 20 BSN students at one southeastern Pennsylvania university described mostly unfavorable attitudes toward mental health nursing. Prior exposure, course content, faculty...
In 91 first-year Thai nursing students, mean 'mental health power' scores were reported as below threshold on all three subscales, though the percentage breakdown showed most students scoring normal on two of the...
In this Egyptian study of 184 baccalaureate nursing students, most showed improved (less stigmatizing) attitudes toward patients with mental illness on the CAMI scale after completing psychiatric nursing and mental...
This systematic review of nine quantitative studies found that inpatient care delivered by master's-educated nurses was associated with improvements in palliative care, continuity of care, mental health, transition...
This reflective case paper traces Thompson Rivers University School of Nursing's 40-year journey from a community college to a full university, describing how faculty built a culture of scholarship using Boyer's four...
Story Based Learning (SBL) is a Canadian-developed nursing teaching model that blends narrative pedagogy, case method teaching, and problem-based learning into a circular, six-phase process for working through practice..
This Canadian Journal of Nursing Research article describes the development of Changeons ensemble, a seven-session, web-based nursing intervention built using Intervention Mapping and the IMB model to promote physical...
A mixed-methods study of internationally educated nurses (IENs) in rural and northern BC found four key themes, resourcefulness, rural life, mental health and identity, and registration-process challenges, and used a...
This scoping review of 22 studies from 10 countries found that mid-career nurse retention interventions cluster into three themes, role satisfaction, work culture, and customized strategies, but their real-world impact..
A think-aloud study built a five-stage cognitive learning model of how nurses develop clinical reasoning from novice to expert.
A small qualitative study found nursing and pharmacy students valued interprofessional simulation and shed stereotypes about each other.
This qualitative study explores patient experiences with self-admission in psychiatric care, finding it generally fosters safety, autonomy, coping skills, and reduces emergency needs. While empowering, some struggled...
In 8,412 BC nurses, emotional exhaustion rose four-fold by 2020 even as quality and safety ratings improved.
A qualitative study of 52 Canadian nurses shows compassion, or its absence, shapes mental health, help-seeking, and return-to-work.
School nurses face escalating job demands driven by increasing student health complexity, chronic condition management, and expanding public health responsibilities. Often serving as the sole healthcare professional...
