Strengthen communities, students, and faculty through a proven strategy to train healthcare workers Georgia Highlands College Euharlee, Georgia
This inspiring presentation describes how MHFA was embedded into a nursing curriculum to meet accreditation standards for teaching cultural humility, health equity, diversity, and inclusion. MHFA carefully prepares students for their first clinical experience in a mental health setting. Their behaviors and self-reports indicate readiness to identify, understand, and respond to mental health needs. Graduates enter the workforce ready to strengthen communities through reduction of stigma and provision of respectful first aid. Come learn how this nursing program prepares future healthcare workers who need and want MHFA training. Participants will learn a step-by-step process infused with inspiring outcome stories.
Learning Objectives:
Use the inspiring stories to market MHFA to healthcare faculty who must provide students with learning that promotes cultural humility.
Implement this easy-to-replicate method for showing healthcare faculty how to embed MHFA into the curriculum and examine common terms that inspire healthcare faculty to require MHFA skills training.
Explain how students are better prepared to identify, understand, and respond to mental health needs during clinical experiences.
