title: Top 10 reasons to take your graduate program in psychiatric nursing online.
abstract: 1. Removing barriers to graduate psychiatric nursing education is possible by delivering courses via the Internet. 2. The Internet is full of valuable resources for graduate psychiatric nursing education. 3. Successful online learning environments involve a paradigm shift on the part of faculty from traditional teaching to facilitating the learning of adult students. 4. Increasing the number of advanced practice psychiatric nurses through Web-based education will transform the delivery of mental health care.
authors.affiliation: Community-Mental Health Department, College of Nursing, University of South Alabama, Mobile 36688, USA. tmcguinness@usouthal.edu
authors.forename: Teena M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: McGuinness
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Noonan
mesh_terms: D004493:Education; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D014481:United States