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Oct 20, 2009 08:35 AM

mental health educator


Hi everybody I currenlty have been a psyh nurse for a year also I deal with chemical dependancy pt quite a bot as well.I am currently a quater through an accerated BSN program.I want to continue on with a masters in clinical edu,I really want to teach nursing .I have precepted and love it I want to inspire students I want to make nursing school a posotive experience as much as possible.I want to teach psy of course .however I am concerend that this is too narrow a field(but love it) what do you think!
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from showbizrn
Old Oct 23, 2009, 11:18 PM

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Too narrow?
Hmmmmm...

The student clinical activities in Behavioral Health Nursing can include the following:

1. developing therapeutic communication skills
2. process recordings of one-to-one student-patient interactions
3. attending and participating in patient groups
4. leading and running psychoeducational groups
5. attending multidisciplinary staff-led treatment-planning and case conferences
6. observational visits to the Psych ER, ECT, Outpatient Treatmernt Programs, Grand Rounds, Administrative Nursing Forums, etc.
7. documenting a comprehensive psychiatric nursing care plan(which includes formulating NANDA-approved psychiatric nursing diagnoses---yes, we DO have them in Psych Nursing too---and don't forget psychiatric nursing interventions)

To name a few, depending on your assigned clinical site and the requirements of your educational institution.

Narrow?

I don't think so.
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from elkpark
Old Oct 24, 2009, 10:39 AM

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I think the question about psych being too "narrow" was about actual teaching responsibilities. Depending on the size of a particular nursing program, you may have to teach other nursing subjects besides just psych nursing in order to have a full time job. If you're willing/available to only teach part-time, you can limit yourself to teaching only psych (or, if it's a large nursing program, it's possible to have a full-time position teaching only psych).

As my first nursing program director/boss used to say all the time, "Cross-training is the heart of nursing education!!" (By which she meant that it didn't really matter that I knew next to nothing about peds, she still needed me to teach the peds clinical rotation ...)
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from VickyRN
Old Oct 24, 2009, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by elkpark View Post
As my first nursing program director/boss used to say all the time, "Cross-training is the heart of nursing education!!" (By which she meant that it didn't really matter that I knew next to nothing about peds, she still needed me to teach the peds clinical rotation ...)
LOL! This really strikes close to home! I am stuck in peds in my current job, not my specialty at all. Overall, I'm just glad to have a job and try to make the best of it. Being "flexible" is truly valued in nursing education today in these very lean and mean times.
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from elkpark
Old Oct 24, 2009, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by VickyRN View Post
Being "flexible" is truly valued in nursing education today in these very lean and mean times.
And at all times in small programs -- my first teaching job was in a small, rural community college ADN program. I was hired to teach the psych course (didactic and clinical), but, since the psych course only happened one quarter out of the year, in order to have a full-time job, I taught peds clinical (someone else taught the didactic, thank God!) and two quarters of advanced (2nd year) med-surg (didactic and clinical) each year -- fortunately, I "team-taught" the med-surg courses with a crack med-surg nurse who had the knowledge and expertise but didn't (yet) have a graduate degree (I did), and we made a really good team. Advanced med-surg clinical was a hoot -- I spent an awful lot of time asking students, when they came to me with questions, "Did you ask your resource nurse (the staff nurse assigned to their client(s)) that?? And what did she say??" I also spent a lot of time finding out that most of the med-surg "pearls of wisdom" I retained from nursing school a decade earlier were now completed outdated and irrelevant ...
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from horus2001
Old Nov 07, 2009, 11:26 PM

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Seriously? You want to teach? I looked at some of your postings and... Let me be honest with you, in graduate school, you write papers. If the quality of your grammar and spelling is the same as you post on this board, you won't make it. I don't want to seem mean but your posting for this thread is full of misspelled words, comma splices, missing commas and run-on sentences.

When you write, you need to be able to clearly express your ideas. I would suggest you take an English class or two at the local junior college. At the Graduate level of school, you are expected to be able to put a complete sentence together. If the teacher can't understand your ideas as written then the onus is on you to improve your skills.

Again, I am not trying to be cruel but you need to improve your writing skills before you start taking classes focused on writing papers. You can't be a professor with the level you are at now, your would-be students won't be able understand what you have written.
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from TexasflowerRN
Old Nov 09, 2009, 09:29 AM

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Hello horus2001. First of all I am offended. I asked for some advice. I did not ask you to look through all of my posts and come up with insulting things to say. My grammer is none of your concern. I post to this forum because there are wonderful people on this forum. I feel on this forum I can post with out having to watch my grammer.I save that for when I am on the clock. You should be ashamed of your self, where you raised in a barn? I hope very much you are not a teacher. I would never in my life be so rude to another human being.
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from showbizrn
Old Nov 09, 2009, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by TexasflowerRN View Post
Hello horus2001. First of all I am offended. I asked for some advice. I did not ask you to look through all of my posts and come up with insulting things to say. My grammer is none of your concern. I post to this forum because there are wonderful people on this forum. I feel on this forum I can post with out having to watch my grammer.I save that for when I am on the clock. You should be ashamed of your self, where you raised in a barn? I hope very much you are not a teacher. I would never in my life be so rude to another human being.
Sorry you received
negative feedback...

I support your desire
to become a mental health educator
and welcome you
to send a pm to me
for any information/assistance
that will help you
to attain your goal.

See?

WE CAN HELP ONE ANOTHER WHEN WE WANT TO
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from iteachob
Old Nov 09, 2009, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by TexasflowerRN View Post
Hello horus2001. First of all I am offended. I asked for some advice. I did not ask you to look through all of my posts and come up with insulting things to say. My grammer is none of your concern. I post to this forum because there are wonderful people on this forum. I feel on this forum I can post with out having to watch my grammer.I save that for when I am on the clock. You should be ashamed of your self, where you raised in a barn? I hope very much you are not a teacher. I would never in my life be so rude to another human being.
TexasflowerRN,

Don't worry about that post.....most people realize that writing on blogs, emails, etc. follows MUCH looser rules than those required by graduate school. With spell-check and an APA manual nearby, I'd venture that most people could write a decent paper.

Good luck to you!
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from TexasflowerRN
Old Nov 09, 2009, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by iteachob View Post
TexasflowerRN,

Don't worry about that post.....most people realize that writing on blogs, emails, etc. follows MUCH looser rules than those required by graduate school. With spell-check and an APA manual nearby, I'd venture that most people could write a decent paper.

Good luck to you!
thank you
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