title: Preparing nurses for the challenge of the new focus on community mental health nursing.
abstract: Canada has endorsed the concept of primary health care and the need to increase community-based mental health care. Mental health nurses in Canada have been reluctant to adopt a primary health care model. Canadian nursing education programs, to this point, have not prepared nurses adequately for this change. In response to these issues, a Community Mental Health Nursing course, based on Canadian health care principles, was developed and implemented for practicing registered nurses enrolled in the BScN program (Post-RN) at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Feedback elicited from students and clinical preceptors has been positive.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bunn
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004518:Education, Professional, Retraining; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D011321:Primary Nursing; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education*