In Monday’s News & Observer (3/31), reporter Jean Fisher gave media coverage to the School’s Nurses Enhancing Mental Health Options – or NEMHO – program. This program trains ethnic minority or otherwise disadvantaged nurses from rural and underserved areas throughout the state to provide psychiatric and mental health services to patients who do not qualify for inpatient care.
The NEMHO program is the only one of its kind in the state. Many of the rural areas in the state do not have psychiatrists, so qualified nurse practitioners are essential to getting these services to people who need them.
Fisher not only describes the program through interviews with faculty members Linda Beeber, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Victoria Soltis-Jarrett, PhD, PMH-NP, but she also spoke with a recent graduate who will soon practice in Jacksonville and a current student to show how NEMHO graduates are immediately filling the psychiatric provider gap.
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