Educational needs of practice nurses in mental health

Addressing children's mental health needs: educational preparation of advanced practice nurses.

I n 1999, the President’s New Freedom Commission Report reported that nearly 14 million children were in need of mental health services, but the vast majority of these youth did not receive care. One underlying cause of the system failure was the shortage of providers for children with mental health needs, a shortage that continues, particularly among clinicians who prescribe psychiatric medica...

Educational Needs of Rural Nurses

Assessing the educational needs of mental health nurses working in an adolescent inpatient psychiatric ward in Japan.

PROBLEM In Japan, preregistration education is not sufficient to prepare nurses to work as child adolescent mental health nurses. METHODS Nominal group technique (NGT) using focus group discussions, and Knowles' Adult Learning Theory, were used to examine the continuing educational needs of nurses in a Japanese adolescent mental health unit. FINDINGS Nurses caring for adolescent patients wi...

Professional development needs of general practice nurses.

The Australian general practice nurse workforce has grown exponentially in recent years as a consequence of supportive government policy and the increasing burden of chronic and complex disease in the community. This descriptive survey sought to identify the educational and professional development needs of NSW practice nurses. A total of 231 nurses employed within 12 NSW Divisions of General P...

Educational needs of inpatient oncology nurses in providing psychosocial care.

Patients with cancer have multiple psychosocial needs during inpatient admissions. However, nurses often are not sure how to best approach those psychosocial needs. Therefore, the purpose of this survey was to determine the educational needs of inpatient oncology nurses in terms of providing psychosocial care to patients and to determine the barriers that inpatient nurses experience when provid...