Construction and practice of psychological sitcom teaching model in Psychiatric Nursing

Objective To construct psychological sitcom teaching model and explore the effect of its application in Psychiatric Nursing teaching.Methods Through literature review,study of the theories,summary of clinical practice and educational experience,we constructed a theoretical framework of psychological sitcom teaching model for Psychiatric Nursing.This model is composed of four contents (teaching aim,teaching modules,teaching process,teaching basic program) and four sessions (initial calculation,acting scripts,classroom observation and sharing,writing experience and internalization of knowledge).A total of 192 nursing students of grade 2012 from the nursing department were selected as the research objects.At the end of the course,questionnaires were employed to evaluate the effects of the students.Results The questionnaires demonstrated that 99.0％ students"prefer this teaching model" and more than 97.9％ students considered it helpful to improve four aspects of comprehensive abilities including "theoretical learning abilities","leadership and decision making skills","nurse-patient communication skills" and "psychological nursing abilities".Conclusions Psychological sitcom teaching model is helpful to improve learning effect of Psychiatric Nursing for nursing students and should be widely spread. Key words: Psychological sitcom;  Psychiatry;  Teaching methods;  Theoretical model