ROLE REVERSAL BETWEEN PATIENT AND STUDENT IN PSYCHIATRIC NURSING

Abstract

Baccalaureate level nursing students must rotate through an integrated psychiatric clinical experience just as they do the medical, surgical, obstetrical and gynecological areas. Our psychiatric nursing experience requires that the student relocate for a summer at the State Hospital some three hundred miles from the campus. During this intensive period of education, the student nurse is exposed to daily lectures, seminars and tape analysis sessions covering the broader aspects of psychiatric nursing. In addition, the student spends one hour daily in therapy with a patient of his choice.