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Mental Illness: A Community Analysis

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Our NURS 431 clinical group is currently piloting a preceptorship program within the community mental health specialty; as a result, we focused our community assessment on the mental well-being of students attending the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Ongoing systematic appraisal is useful in community health nursing (CHN) to scan the environment in a community, identify needs, investigate any problems or concerns, and evaluate available resources (Stamler & Yiu, 2012). By performing a walking survey and utilizing U of S resources, newspaper articles, and other scholarly writing, we were able to thoroughly explore the needs of U of S students who may be coping with a mental illness. Our paper formulates

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