Abstract
Mental health is a stigma that is far reaching and needs to be addressed on all levels. The education of healthcare professionals to combat this negative attitude should be forefront. For this pilot study, the purpose was to examine the relationship of including mental health components in simulation scenarios and an inpatient mental health clinical shift to influence associate degree nursing students’ attitudes regarding mental health. On a small Midwestern, rural community college campus, nursing students were surveyed with a quantitative instrument at three different time intervals; pre-intervention, post-simulation, and post-inpatient. Although the findings did not conclude a statistically significant relationship between the interventions implemented and the attitudes of the students, the study did find a slight movement towards positive attitude in the mean scores as the participants were followed over two semesters. Moving forward, explorations of different strategies should be researched by nursing educators to influence nursing students’ attitudes towards mental health.
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