VIDEO: Creative educational strategies improve remote psychiatric assessment course

Andrew Penn, RN, MS, NP, associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing, discussed one of his presentations from the American Psychiatric Nurses Association Annual Conference in a video interview with Healio.

In the session, Penn and Bethany J. Phoenix, PhD, RN, FAAN, discussed how evidence-based educational strategies, like developing creative lecture modules used in their psychiatric assessment and management course, benefited nursing students when transitioning from an in-person to a remote learning class.

“The class served several purposes, one of which is to impart knowledge about mental health diagnoses and treatment, but also to hopefully change attitudes because a lot of people and nurses come into psychiatry with bias they haven’t really examined and unexamined prejudice toward folks with mental illness. So, we really try to humanize mental health,” Penn said.