Lessons learned: research with rural Mexican-American women.

The authors share lessons learned from 5 community-based research studies involving rural Mexican-American women. The 10 lessons revolved around compensation, confidentiality, recruitment, crossing paths, mailings, locating people, participation/attendance, translation, children, and closure. Despite their clinical knowledge and previous experiences in service with this population, researchers found recruiting and retaining participants and data collection far more challenging than expected.

Preparing for prescriptive privileges: a standard for the psychiatric-mental health preceptorship.

Topic: Establishing a standard for preparation for prescriptive authority for advanced practice psychiatric nurses.

Purpose: To outline a best practice standard for the clinical and prescriptive authority preceptorship.

Sources: NACNS and NONPF competencies and practice guidelines.

School-based health center viability: application of the COPC model.

Providing effective primary and preventive health care to adolescents is challenging. Traditional medical and nursing models have had little success in guiding health care for the individual adolescent. A community-based model would aim programs and intervention at high-risk adolescents identified as needing treatment.

Psychiatric-mental health clinical nurse specialist practice in a public school setting.

The public school setting is increasingly becoming an entry point of contact for an array of healthcare services because it is most likely the best positioned institution to improve a community's overall healthcare. By linking behavioral healthcare services with primary healthcare services in the school setting, the psychiatric-mental health clinical nurse specialist is well suited to provide comprehensive behavioral health services.