By the Health.mil Staff
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Pam Wall, former program
director for the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)
Adult Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program recently discussed the role of
nurses in delivering mental health care to wounded veterans. Wall, speaking with “Need to Know,” a PBS TV
and web newsmagazine, said her goal is to eliminate the stigma surrounding
mental health problems and mental health care.
She also emphasized the connection between nursing care and mental
health care.
“One of the advantages of nursing is
that because we are always with the patients I think it helps us to readily
identify some mental health issues maybe before another person is able to
identify it,” she said.
Wall was at the University of
Pennsylvania, where she and her colleague, Lt. Cmdr. Sean Convoy, also a member
of the Navy Nurse Corps and current director of the USUHS program, taught a
class on post-traumatic stress disorder. Speaking with the nursing students,
both Wall and Convoy emphasized the unique stresses faced by service members
and the role nurses play in helping them get the psychological care they need.
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