The current article explores the challenges of correctional nursing and provides implications for nursing practice and advocacy for optimal outcomes for incarcerated individuals with mental illness. The role of the nurse as advocate and educator is discussed. Opportunities for changing the conversation that addresses the criminalization of mental illness, stigma, and social policy is presented as a path forward. [ Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 57 (7), 7–12.]

Helicopter parenting is a type of over-parenting in which parents hover over their college students, ready to intervene at a moment's notice to protect and micromanage their emerging adult's personal and academic life. Constant monitoring by parents may have a negative impact on mental health by decreasing a sense of independence and self-efficacy. Current traditional undergraduate students comprise the cohort of youth in the iGen generation. With the advent of smartphones, parents' surveillance adds to the “culture of safetyism” that predominates on college campuses, leading to mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, and eating disorders. Psychiatric–mental health nurses need to be aware of the effects of helicopter parenting on the development of college students and encourage youth to engage in challenging educational and social activities that promote autonomy and independence. [ Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 58 (5), 16–22.]

This theory provides a framework for understanding how nursing faculty recognize and address student MHI. The theory can be used to establish interventional strategies and best practice guidelines.

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Objectives The culture of the academic setting can be fraught with tension filled ethical situations challenging faculty relations with students and colleagues. Therefore, the purpose of this qualitative study was to identify the process that occurs when nursing faculty encounter tension filled situations affecting their ethical values and beliefs in the education setting. Methods A grounded theory approach was employed to achieve data saturation from interviews of thirteen faculty representing eight colleges/universities in three states of the MidAtlantic region of the United States. Results The Basic Social Psychological Process that emerged from the data demonstrated faculty efforts toward safeguarding profession, student, and self. Three concepts: experiencing, identifying, and resolving evolved. Conclusions Data evidenced that ethical tension negatively influences one’s work-life balance, and civility with faculty and students. Implications for balancing these influences and working toward a harmonious environment are provided.