RESUMO
Future nursing graduates will face a challenge as they seek employment in a changing healthcare system. A managed-care system using community-based sites is the trend of the future, with economy of care as the norm. The authors describe one model for educating students to meet community mental health challenges. The chronically mentally ill have traditionally been underserved in the community, resulting in frequent and costly readmissions to psychiatric hospitals. Appropriately prepared graduates can successfully manage the care of these clients economically in the community. The integration of community mental health into the community health course group meets that challenge.
Assuntos
Enfermagem em Saúde Comunitária/educação , Currículo , Bacharelado em Enfermagem/métodos , Saúde Mental , Enfermagem Psiquiátrica/educação , Humanos , Modelos Educacionais , Modelos de EnfermagemRESUMO
In order to reclaim the "art" of nursing, educators need to prepare their graduates with human caring skills that draw from phenomenology, existentialism, and all segments of the humanities. Nurses of the future will be healers of the body and spirit. The authors discuss, from theoretical perspectives, how the humanities empower the student and offer suggestions for the integration of the humanities into lecture and clinical settings.