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Mental Health Nursing Education and Health Labour Force: Literature Review

Table of contents

Executive Summary

Mental Health Nursing

Background

Models of Nurse Education

Initial Preperation for Mental Health Nursing Practice

Comprehensive Nurse Education

Undergraduate Nurse Education

Skills

Postgraduate Education in Mental Health Nursing

Preperation for Advanced Practice

Lifelong Learning

Attrition

Recruitment and Rentention

Summary

Refrences

Tables

Table 1: Average number of hours of classroom instruction and clinical experience in mental health nursing in Australian universities - 1999 (Clinton, 2001)

Table 2: Number of FTE academic staff in university departments of nursing and the proportion teaching in undergraduate and postgraduate courses in mental health nursing (Clinton, 2001)

Table 3: Core skills, knowledge and attitudes required for mental health services

Table 4: Attitudes, knowledge and skills required for mental health nursing

Table 5: Number of nurses who have completed a qualification in mental health nursing and average annual wastage rates from postgraduate mental health nursing courses 1996-98 (Clinton, 2001)

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