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Can Completing a Mental Health Nursing Course Change Students' Attitudes?
- Source :
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Issues in Mental Health Nursing . May2017, Vol. 38 Issue 5, p449-454. 6p. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Nursing program graduates rarely choose mental health nursing as a career. A quasi-experimental study was conducted to examine attitudes of 310 nursing students towards persons with mental illness. Students completed surveys on the first and last days of their program's psychiatric mental health nursing course. The pre- and post-test survey analysis indicated that students improved their attitude, knowledge and preparedness to care for persons with mental illness. However, students maintained little interest in working as a mental health nurse. Modifications in mental health nursing courses could be made to improve students' interest in choosing a career in mental health nursing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *ALTERNATIVE education
*CONFIDENCE intervals
*STATISTICAL correlation
*RESEARCH methodology
*NURSING education
*PSYCHIATRIC nursing
*QUESTIONNAIRES
*STATISTICAL sampling
*SCALE analysis (Psychology)
*STATISTICAL hypothesis testing
*STUDENT attitudes
*SURVEYS
*T-test (Statistics)
*PRE-tests & post-tests
*DATA analysis software
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*BACCALAUREATE nursing education
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01612840
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Issues in Mental Health Nursing
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 122728314
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2017.1278810