Caughill Ann P, Dunford Denise
a D'Youville College, School of Nursing , Buffalo , New York , USA.
Issues Ment Health Nurs. 2015;36(10):836-9. doi: 10.3109/01612840.2015.1057784.
The goal of excellence in nursing education has led to efforts to recruit students into baccalaureate and graduate programs. Additionally, a need exists to prepare practitioners to meet the mental health needs of health care recipients, including veterans. As a strategy for meeting these objectives, educators from an urban private college proposed a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) program. This program was developed in response to an identified need in the community for improved mental health services. Although several groups in need would be served, attention was focused on veterans in need of care as well as those veteran students interested in Psychiatric Mental Health (PMH) nursing. Some factors that supported this thinking included the proximity of the campus to the Veterans Administration Medical Center and other veteran community services, the college's significant number of student veterans, and its distinction as among the most veteran friendly campuses in the nation. This article reviews the literature that supports the need for graduate education in this specialty and the value of providing educational opportunities for interested veterans.
追求卓越护理教育的目标促使人们努力招收学生进入本科和研究生项目。此外，培养从业者以满足包括退伍军人在内的医疗保健接受者的心理健康需求也很有必要。作为实现这些目标的一项策略，一所城市私立学院的教育工作者们提出了一个精神科心理健康护理执业医师（PMHNP）项目。该项目是为应对社区中对改善心理健康服务的明确需求而开发的。虽然有几个有需求的群体将得到服务，但重点关注的是需要护理的退伍军人以及那些对精神科心理健康（PMH）护理感兴趣的退伍军人学生。支持这一想法的一些因素包括校园与退伍军人管理局医疗中心及其他退伍军人社区服务机构的距离较近、该学院有大量退伍军人学生，以及它作为全国最受退伍军人欢迎的校园之一的声誉。本文回顾了支持该专业研究生教育必要性以及为感兴趣的退伍军人提供教育机会价值的相关文献。
