Student Profile: Students in this course are in their four-year Psychiatric Nursing program. These students can be expected to have an advanced understanding of this project area.

Student Profile:

Skills already have:

• Advanced communication skills
• Regulated professional (registered psychiatric nurses)
• Completed mental status examination
• Understand leadership and leadership roles
• Exposure to research methods

Skills to be developed:

• Community engagement skills
• Disseminating information 
• Enhancing the application of working with underrepresented population
• Promoting health within a community 

Commitment:

Community Partners should provide a dedicated supervisor for the project team. 

The supervisor will be responsible for the following: 

• present the project to the class, 
• host an onboarding meeting with their matched student team, 
• provide ongoing communication, direction, and feedback about the project, 
• attend the final presentation, and 
• offboard the student team by providing feedback on the project as well as the student’s competency development. 

Challenge statement 

Students will apply concepts of community engagement to identify and analyze while completing the project and engaging in a health promotion/wellness service project with a selected community.

The major learning outcomes of this project could include:

• Analyze and integrate selected theories, philosophical perspectives, educational

practices and evidence into the provision of community mental health nursing

practice.

• Reflect on and discuss the principles of primary health care and the

psychiatric/mental health nurses’ role in health promotion within the community

settings.