Navigating the Faculty–Student Relationship: Interacting With Nursing Students With Mental Health Issues

Although nursing faculty teach students the basics of therapeutic communication for patient care, faculty may be overlooking the significance of using therapeutic communication with their students. When nursing students experience stress and mental health concerns such as sadness, anxiety, negative thoughts, and depression, instructors need to assess these problems and implement therapeutic communication strategies. Faculty who recognize symptoms and engage students can promote healthy relationships and positive academic outcomes while exemplifying Christlike care for their students.

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A Short Form for Measuring Anxiety in Nursing Education

Reed,

Ferdig,

Karpinski

et al. 2024

J Nurs Meas

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Background and purpose:Nursing education lacks an easily accessible, valid, and reliable short instrument to support researchers and instructors in quickly assessing student anxiety. The purpose of this research was to respond to this need by assessing the reliability and validity of a short-form anxiety instrument adapted from psychology which could measure state and trait anxiety.Methods:Using a one-group, repeated measures design, 51 sophomore level undergraduate nursing students had their state and trait anxiety levels measured at three time points over the course of a semester.Results:Results showed that the anxiety instrument was valid and reliable for use in nursing education with Cronbach’s α ranging from .65 to .88.Conclusion:Future nurse researchers and educators should consider using the short-form anxiety instrument when a quick differentiation is needed to measure state and trait anxiety.

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Navigating the Faculty–Student Relationship: Interacting With Nursing Students With Mental Health Issues

Abstract: 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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