Strategies for Improving Nursing Students' Mental Health Clinical Rotation.
Mental illness is a huge problem many people face in the U.S. and around the world. The American Psychiatric Nurses Association indicates there is a shortage of nurses in every level and role in psychiatric-mental health nursing. Raising up a generation of nurses who want to work with the mentally ill is a challenge for nurse educators. The use of role playing and simulation in the learning lab prior to entering the clinical setting and reflective journaling in the clinical rotation can improve undergraduate nursing students' mental health clinical experience.
Maureen Kroning, EdD, RN, is a nursing supervisor at Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern, New York, and an associate professor at Nyack College of Nursing. Her greatest reward is teaching future generations of nurses.
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