The Mental Health Nurse: Views of Practice and Education

Who and what are mental health nurses now, and what might they become? In this book a number of prominent nurse educators and practitioners present their answers to these questions. Each contributor presents a different "version" of the mental health nurse stimulating students, teachers and practitioners to read and think more widely about mental health nursing. The Mental Health Nurse is a turn in dialogue inviting those contemplating a career in mental health nursing to imagine shaping the future, and those more established in practice to reflect on their own "version" of the nurse. Written by a team of experienced practitioners in mental health, the chapters draw directly on

Spis treści:
A personal view of psychiatric nursing;.
The craft of care – towards collaborative caring in psychiatric nursing;.
Caring about the client – the role of gender, empathy and power in the therapeutic process;.
Coercion and control and mental health nursing;.
Reflections from the outside in – my journey into, through and out of psychiatric nursing;.
Reflections of senior nurse manager;.
Taking stock of psychiatric nursing;.
Ambiguity in nursing – the person and the organisation as contrasting sources of meaning in nursing practice;.
Therapeutic mental health nursing in the acute in–patient setting – mission impossible;.
The mental health nurse as rhetorician;.
Negotiating differences in mental health nursing in New Zealand;.
Is dementia a challenge to the identity of the mental health nurse?;.
Conclusion;.
Index

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Who and what are mental health nurses now, and what might they become? In this book a number of prominent nurse educators and practitioners present their answers to these questions. Each contributor presents a different "version" of the mental health nurse stimulating students, teachers and practitioners to read and think more wi dely about mental health nursing. The Mental Health Nurse is a turn in dialogue inviting those contemplating a career in mental health nursing to imagine shaping the future, and those more established in practice to reflect on their own "version" of the nurse. Written by a team of experienced practitioners in mental health, the chapters draw directly on