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Medical English Clear & Simple: A Practice-Based Approach to English for ESL Healthcare Professionals
By Melodie Hull, RPN, MSc, MEd, BA, TESOL, PID, © 2010
F A Davis Company, PA, USA
ISBN-13: 978-0-8036-2165-7
ISBN-10: 0-8036-2165
Available from publisher and major booksellers world wide.
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Melodie is a proud supporter of the…
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Registered Psychiatric Nurses (RPN) in British Columbia have a long and proud history of providing expertise in the care of persons with mental health challenges. Like many provinces in Canada, psychiatric nursing programs have run as a parallel stream to general nursing, beginning in the early 1920s. Education programs have developed from short training programs in mental hospitals to college diplomas and now include baccalaureate and masters degrees. The first Canadian psychiatric nursing undergraduate degree was offered at Brandon University, Manitoba in the 1980s.
Registered Psychiatric Nursing education includes courses in psychology, sociology, as well as nursing theory and practice in general. It goes without saying that psychiatric nursing education has a main curricular theme of theory and practice for all aspects of mental health and addictions across the lifespan. This includes an emphasis on interpersonal communication skills, individual and group counselling and therapies and so on. Psychiatric nurses also study general nursing skills and competencies including full physical and mental health assessment, nursing care and interventions, medical-surgical skills (i.e: wound care, nasogastric intubation and feeding, tracheostomy care, etc.), and pharmacology/medication administration. RPNs work with individuals who are challenged by addictions, grief & loss, trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Across Canada, entry to practice requires registration. To attain a credential of R (registered) for RPN, psychiatric nurses must graduate from a program accredited by/recognized by the College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses and succeed on a national psychiatric nursing exam. The designation of R is permitted by each province’s Health Professions Act. In BC, RPNs have been recognized by the Health Professions Act since 1999. Prior to that, they were recognized by the Nurses Act of BC. In BC, BPN and BScPN programs are offered at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and Douglas College.
RPNs in British Columbia work in a wide variety of settings. Some examples are:
- staff nurses on in-patient psychiatric units in general hospitals
- nurse-therapists in out-patient psychiatric departments of hospitals
- psychiatric-nurse clinicians and/or psychiatric nurse liaison/urgent response nurses in Emergency Departments of all major hospitals
- community mental health nurses in case management, assessment, care, counselling and therapy
- forensic psychiatry as staff nurses, case managers and administrators
- nurse clinician(s) at the BC Center for Disease Control
- administration for the BC Health Authorities
- education – teaching in BPN, BScPN, BSN and practical nursing programs
- education and counselling/therapy with police officers and military personnel
- Car 67 programs: one RPN plus one police offer dedicated to mental health crisis calls
- After Hours crisis response teams in communities
- staff nurses and nurse-therapists in drug and alcohol detoxification and treatment centers
- staff nurses, team leaders and directors of care in intermediate and long term care setting
- staff nurses and counsellors in adolescent psychiatry and youth probation
- staff nurses in medical health units of adult and juvenile provincial and federal correctional facilities
- nurse-therapists in federal correctional treatment centers: youth and adult
- staff nurses in physical and mental health rehabilitation centers (i.e.: BC Rehab)
- staff nurses, directors and operators of group homes for those with mental illnesses, physical and/or cognitive deficits or challenges
- staff nurses, nurse-therapists/counsellors and case managers in community outreach programs including working with clients with mental illness, addictions, homelessness, refugees and new immigrant services, and victims of crime (i.e.: violence, sexual abuse) and domestic violence
- nurse-therapists and counsellors with victims of sexual abuse
- therapists and counsellors in private practice
- front line mental health nurses at disasters and refugee camps with international aid agencies (i.e. Medicins sans Frontiers (Doctors without Borders) )
If you are interested in learning more about Registered Psychiatric Nurses in British Columbia or Canada in general, please Contact Us or visit the website for the College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of British Columbia, www.crpnbc.bc.ca.
In 2007 Melodie, one of the 4 original developers of the Bachelor of Psychiatric Nurses program at Kwantlen University College (now Kwantlen Polytechnic University) created a psychiatric nursing endowment fund for 3rd year students. Each year, she awards $1,000.00 to a psychiatric nursing student fully committed to this exciting career and field of nursing.
Melodie Hull confers a cheque to the Kwantlen Foundation for the new Melodie Hull Psychiatric Nursing Endowment Fund, July 2007.
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