Collaboration and partnership: nursing education and self-help groups.
Development of a collaborative partnership between a mental health psychiatric nursing course and Recovery Incorporated, a self-help group, is described. Baccalaureate nursing students' reactions to their clinical experience as participant observers are examined. Through collaboration, a partnership developed that afforded students an appreciation of the role of self-help groups in supporting mental health, awareness of consumer responsibility for decision making. This partnership also fostered increased openness to diversity.
Snyder
M D
MD
Concordia University & West Suburban College of Nursing, Oak Park, IL, USA.
Weyer
M E
ME
D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D012657:Self-Help Groups / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013338:Students, Nursing; D013663:Teaching