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Educational film series

Mental Health Nursing

Follow along with this series of vignettes where nurses interact with clients experiencing a wide range of mental health challenges. In each situation there are two scenarios, the novice scenario helps students to see and anticipate some of the more common errors that a student nurse may make when first dealing with these clients. In contrast the expert scenario shows students how a mental health nurse with more advanced skills and knowledge would handle these situations. This series of examples is a valuable learning tool for nurses preparing to enter the mental health field. (5 x 30:00)

Titles in this series

6 films

2003 · 25m

Client Experiencing Mania

Our next example demonstrates a nurses who is finding it quite challenging to care for a client who…

2003 · 25m

Depressed / Suicidal Client

Most of us can relate to being "down" or "blue" at various points in our lives, but occasionally…

2003 · 25m

Mental Status Assessment

One of the things that mental health nurses must do on a continuous basis with their clients is…