title: Media as a teaching tool in psychiatric nursing education.
abstract: The authors describe a course in psychiatric nursing where media in the form of literature, film, and music were used as teaching strategies. The purpose was to enhance students' sensitivity to the personal experiences of psychiatric patients while also broadening students' understanding of mental illness and the institutions developed to treat it. Students' critical reading, thinking, and analytic skills were cultivated, along with introspection and self-reflection.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Johnson Hall of Nursing #224, Purdue University, 502 N. University Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2069, USA. bwall@nursing.purdue.edu
authors.forename: Barbra Mann
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Wall
authors.forename: Eileen K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Rossen
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008091:Literature; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology; D009040:Motion Pictures; D009146:Music; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000941:ethics / Q000379:methods; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D013664:Teaching Materials