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Structural competency in nursing education and practice is essential to our ability to achieve mental health equity. It offers both a framework and a process for working effectively with disenfranchised individuals and populations and effecting institutional and social change.
For example, 52 nurses working in mental health intensive care units identified empathy, active listening, and appropriate body language as core nursing competencies (Ward & Gwinner, 2015).
May 11, 2021 · Nurses are committed to meeting the diverse and often complex needs of people with competence and compassion. While nursing is viewed as a “calling” by many nurses, it is a demanding profession. During the course of their work, nurses encounter physical, mental, emotional, and ethical challenges.
- Jennifer Lalitha Flaubert, Suzanne Le Menestrel, David R. Williams, Mary K. Wakefield
- 2021/05/11
- 2021
Nov 7, 2022 · This chapter addresses strategies for advanced practice mental health nurses (APMHNs) to maintain, and develop, their personal knowledge, skills and values. It also considers approaches that advanced practitioners might use to support the development of others, including less experienced members of the interprofessional team.
Nurses engage in compassionate, supportive, professional relationships with their clients as part of the “art of nursing.” This chapter will review the nurse-client relationship, therapeutic communication, and motivational interviewing. It will also introduce teletherapy and telehealth.
- 2022
Jan 20, 2022 · Using the competencies and associated behaviours, teams assess their performance which can both facilitate an acknowledgement of their strengths and can lead to the development of workplans that identify opportunities for training, capacity-building, and improvement.
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This indicates that nurses in all roles need interventions that help improve perceived competency. The current study findings indicate only small increases in average perceived competence for hospital nurses despite multiple efforts (primarily in the ECC).
