Nursing Students' Attitudes to Mental Health Nursing: Psychometric Properties of a Self-report Scale

It's the Anxiety: Facilitators and Inhibitors to Nursing Students’ Career Interests in Mental Health Nursing

“…Studies of nursing students' views consistently demonstrate a preference for other types of nursing as a career, relative to mental health nursing (Happell, 2001;Stevens & Dulhunty, 1997). Unequivocally, those indicating an interest in MHN as a career are few (Evangelou, 2010;Happell & Gough, 2009;Hayman-White & Happell, 2005;Hoekstra, van Meijel, & van der Hooft-Leemans, 2010).…”

Utilization of Standardized Patients to Decrease Nursing Student Anxiety

“…If students feel less anxious, they may be more likely to establish an enhanced therapeutic relationship with the patient thus achieving the goals of improving patient outcomes and compliance with treatment. Additionally, there is a current and projected shortage of psychiatric mental health nurses, and numerous studies indicate that student anxiety surrounding mental illness leads to negative stereotypes of the mentally ill and less interest in pursuing mental health nursing as a future career (Holmes, 2006;Happell, et al, 2014;Happell & Gaskin, 2012;Happell & Gough, 2009). Incorporation of SP simulation experiences into the mental health nursing course may be one method of enhancing student confidence and recruiting RNs into this specialty.…”

The Nursing Students' Experience of Psychiatric Practice in South Korea

“…These negative attitudes towards psychiatry are factors that prevent nursing students from practicing comfortably (Happell & Hayman-White, 2009). This could be due to prejudices acquired in a social-cultural context (Koskinen, Mikkonen, & Jokinen, 2011).…”