title: Advanced practice psychiatric mental health nursing, finding our core: the therapeutic relationship in 21st century.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Increasingly, students from various professional backgrounds are enrolling in Psychiatric Mental Health (PMH) Nursing graduate programs, especially at the post-master's level. Faculty must educate these students to provide increasingly complex care while socializing them as PMH advanced practitioners.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To present how one online program is addressing these issues by reasserting the centrality of the relationship and by assuring it has at least equal footing with the application of a burgeoning knowledge base of neurobiology of mental illness.
  
  
  METHODS
  Published literature from nursing and psychology.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The PMH graduate faculty believes that they have developed strategies to meet this challenge and to help build a PMH workforce that will maintain the centrality of the relationship in PMH practice.
authors.affiliation: Rush University College of Nursing, Chicago, IL, USA. Suzanne_Perraud@rush.edu
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Perraud
authors.forename: Kathleen R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Delaney
authors.forename: Linnea
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Carlson-Sabelli
authors.forename: Mary E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Rebekah
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shephard
authors.forename: Olimpia
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Paun
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003142:Communication; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003379:Countertransference; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004645:Empathy; D005544:Forecasting; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology; D017145:Models, Educational; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009446:Neurobiology; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000523:psychology*; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D048108:Nursing Informatics / Q000458:organization & administration; D009736:Nursing Process; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D011340:Problem Solving; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration; D012649:Self Concept; D012951:Socialization