title: Strategies for improving education.
abstract: 1. An extensive curriculum is required to prepare mental health professionals to adequately assess, plan, and implement the necessary comprehensive treatment plan and to sufficiently develop relevant social policy. 2. A majority of professionals believe they were not adequately trained in the care of the chronically mentally ill; this may be a result of the trend of integrating the teaching of mental health nursing concepts into the baccalaureate curriculum. 3. Frequently there is a lack of mental health professional role models. Nursing faculty are in an excellent position to implement innovative practice models. 4. Learning from a multidisciplinary team may increase the likelihood that students will apply these approaches to the chronically mentally ill.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, San Jose State University, California.
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Connolly
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D006291:Health Policy; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011788:Quality of Life