Moving in circles: A brief history of reports and inquiries relating to mental health content in undergraduate nursing curricula

Effect of an HIV/AIDS tailored health education program in Western China: An intervention study

“…We found that knowledge of the MCWs regarding HIV/AIDS was greatly improved.. The results of the current study and other similar studies show that, [17,18] given an effective mode tailored for the target audience, and by disseminating information via the appropriate media, people with relatively low education but at potentially high risk for transmission of HIV will benefit from a THEP. Different methods of health education was used depending on the target population by THEP.…”

Competency-based curriculum education in mental health nursing

“…Studies have shown that such shortcomings have made the graduate incompetent to take their role as mental health care provider [4,20,21]. Worries regarding lack of professional development among the nurses and mental health nurses in particular, may influence health care standards [22].…”

“…It is believed that reluctance to enter mental health profession among the nursing students is due to lack of enough field experience in mental health nursing during the education program. In addition, the graduates are not prepared to work in mental health ward [20,45].…”

“…Happell (2010) named six fields of mental health nursing based on the report by National Review of Nursing Education including forensic/moral and physical treatments, current classification of diseases, patientnurse relation, and individual/public mental health [20]. Moreover, a framework of learning/teaching content of curriculum programming before professional work was recommended by mental health nursing education taskforce (MHNET), including: principle values to learn about learning/teaching process, outcomes of mental health learning content, principles of learning and teaching mental health content, and criteria to determine mental health content indices.…”

“…Some studies have focused on limitations regarding nursing education program and mental health content in particular. These studies have emphasized on negative attitudes of nursing programs in general toward mental health nursing [20,21]. From mental health viewpoint, there are worries regarding content of bachelor program of mental health nursing including incompetency of the graduates to provide health care services to the mental patients, which has resulted to shortage of expert nurses.…”