Advanced practice psychiatric mental health nursing, finding our core: the therapeutic relationship in 21st century.
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.
Perraud
Suzanne
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Rush University College of Nursing, Chicago, IL, USA. Suzanne_Perraud@rush.edu
Delaney
Kathleen R
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Carlson-Sabelli
Linnea
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Johnson
Mary E
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Shephard
Rebekah
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Paun
Olimpia
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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