Abstract
This study evaluated Products of Federal School of Psychiatric Nursing in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. Five research questions were raised to direct the course of this study. An evaluation research design was adopted to evaluate 64 psychiatric nurses purposively selected from the 150 students who graduated from the School between 2014-2019 working in Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Calabar. Data was collected using observational technique and checklist designed by the researcher. The instrument was validated and reliability established with the use of Cronbach’s Alpha reliability test at the range of 0.810-0.990. Analysis was done using descriptive statistics which involve proportion, percentage, mean, and weighted mean score. Findings of the study revealed that nurses from Federal School of Psychiatric Nursing, Calabar fairly utilize their nursing process. However, they had overall good performance in creating an atmosphere of trust, which allows for meeting the patient’s basic emotional needs; creating opportunity for patients to express selffeelings; displaying tolerance in accepting maladaptive behaviours; and assisting in providing necessary corrective experiences. It was therefore concluded that Federal School of Psychiatric Nursing, Calabar is effective in preparing nurses for efficient healthcare delivery of the mentally ill. Based on these findings, it was recommended among others that the school should include the programme objectives in their curriculum, increase supervision of students during clinical on use of nursing process and ensure enough nursing project booklets are reproduced for use in the school and clinical area.