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UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION FACULTY TOOLKIT This toolkit offers new ways to teach the concepts of psychiatric-mental health nursing as set forth in both the _Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice_ (2014) and the _Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing in the BSN Curriculum_ (2008).  |  View

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