ePsychNurse.Net co-operation between England and Finland
During the two weeks professor Mary Chambers from Kingston University has spent at the Department of Nursing Science. She has been working with Professor Maritta Välimäki modifying the curriculum for the EU mental health nursing project e-PsychNurse.Net. All the teaching materials have also been completed including the virtual patient scenarios together with a Handboodk for Teachers.
Professor Mary Chambers and professor Maritta Välimäki and have worked on two papers for publication in referred journals on the outcomes of a survery of nurses attitudes to mental illness as part of the e-PsychNurse.Net project. One paper describes the attitudes of mental health nurses towards mental illness across the 6 countries involved in the project and the other relates specifically to Finnish nurses attitudes.
When not working on e-PsychNurse materials Mary Chambers has also completed a paper on Service user involvement in research: ethical and practical considerations for publication in a scientific journal associated with Klipeda College in Lithuania, one of the partners in the e-PsychNurse.Net project. Finally she has drafted a paper for publication in refereed journal on Performance indicators for mental health nursing: outcomes from a pilot study.
“I consider my time at the department as being highly productive and I accomplished much more here than would have been possible in my home institutions. The environment in the department was extremely welcoming and I was made to feel very 'much at home' here. I look forward to further collaboration with the department and Professor Välimäki" says professor Mary Chambers.
