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Imagination Column. On Fireflies And Stars: Envisioning Luminescent Beacons For Advancing Nursing And Rogerian Science, Howard Butcher
Imagination Column. On Fireflies And Stars: Envisioning Luminescent Beacons For Advancing Nursing And Rogerian Science, Howard Butcher
Howard K. Butcher
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Reenvisioning Gerontological Mental Health Nursing Education: A Commentary, Howard Butcher
Reenvisioning Gerontological Mental Health Nursing Education: A Commentary, Howard Butcher
Howard K. Butcher
Reenvisioning gerontological mental health nursing begins with reinterpreting the meaning of aging and radically transforming the curriculum of the subspecialty. The commentary suggests 11 specific recommendations that expand on Morris and Mentes's article as a way of reenvisioning and rerooting gerontological mental health nursing. Among the recommendations are renaming the subspecialty "gerontological mental health nursing" as a means to more appropriately reflect the multidisciplinary focus and mental health perspective, placing an equal emphasis on positive aspects of healthy aging, developing a standardized model curriculum, increasing the number of programs offering specialization in gerontological mental health nursing, and reinvigorating continuing education …