Teaching and Learning in Nursing
Volume 3, Issue 2 , Pages 53-55, April 2008

Enhancing student comfort in psychiatric clinical settings

  • Terry D. Penn, MSN, RN

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Clinical Nurse Educator, Watts School of Nursing at Durham Regional Hospital, Durham, NC 27704, USA

Doctoral Student, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC 27403, USA

Abstract 

Fear, anxiety, and negative attitudes have decreased the popularity of psychiatric nursing as a career choice among nursing students. Nursing faculty is faced with the challenge of reducing nursing student fear and anxiety, as well as changing the negative attitudes of student nurses entering the psychiatric clinical settings to positive ones. This article provides strategies for enhancing student comfort in the psychiatric clinical setting, which can lead to an increase in psychiatric nursing as a career option.

Keywords: Psychiatric, Clinical, Nursing student

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PII: S1557-3087(07)00099-6

doi:10.1016/j.teln.2007.10.001

Teaching and Learning in Nursing
Volume 3, Issue 2 , Pages 53-55, April 2008

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