‘I AM A STAR’: a mnemonic for undertaking a mental state examination

Abstract

The role of the nurse lecturer is to create a learning experience which facilitates the link between theory and practice. The Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC, 2010) suggest that programmes designed to prepare nurses should offer a flexible, blended approach to learning, and draw on the full range of modern learning methods and modes of delivery and that simulation is recommended as a useful method of teaching and learning in order to help facilitate the link between theory and practice.