Achieving Full Scope of Practice Readiness Using Evidence for Psychotherapy Teaching in Web and Hybrid Approaches in Psychiatric Mental Health Advanced Practice Nursing Education

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The privilege of sheparding PMHNP students in their full role expectations in a blended, on-line and Face to Face format provided me with the opportunity to make the challenge work. I did work toward and attain success with the assistance of a supportive university online philosophy and IT department, gifted personable faculty, sheer grit and receptive students who are largely digital natives. What seems daunting, can be, like most large projects, managed by breaking challenges down into smaller manageable parts. The work done, the program continues in its iterative improvement process with other graduate schools of nursing, adopting the model. Psychotherapy is difficult to teach, and practice norms of PMHNPs often ignore this skill. When graduates are prepared with these skills, their practice is more holistic and their patient outcomes are optimized, perpetuating the role as it is designed to be according to the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculty, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and the American Nurses Credentialling Center.

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