What should be the future focus of mental health nursing? Exploring the perspectives of mental health nurses, consumers, and allied health staff

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Wand ◽  
Suzanne Glover ◽  
Diane Paul
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Allied Health ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
Mental Health Nursing ◽  
Mental Health Nurses ◽  
The Future ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
Future Focus

The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Workforce: Large Numbers, Little Data

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 111-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Hanrahan ◽  
Gail W. Stuart ◽  
Pat Brown ◽  
Mary Johnson ◽  
Claire Burke Draucker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Nursing Workforce ◽  
Health Care Market ◽  
Mental Health Nursing ◽  
Mental Health Nurses ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

Managing the supply of psychiatric-mental health nursing labor, determining the financial incentives associated with the provision of services by these providers, and ensuring optimal patient and cost outcomes are critical elements of cost control and patient safety in the current health care market. Knowledge of the psychiatric-mental health nursing workforce is needed to plan and evaluate cost-effective programs to accomplish the aforementioned elements. However, the psychiatric-mental health nursing workforce data are woefully inadequate. This paper will review the extent to which national data sources contain workforce information on psychiatric-mental health nurses.

Mental health nursing in a rehabilitation and recovery context

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjorie Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Hospital Staff ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
Mental Health Crisis ◽  
Psychiatric Facility ◽  
Mental Health Nursing ◽  
Mental Health Nurses ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Uk

In this chapter we return to the story of Anthony and his brother David, who we originally met in Chapter 4, and Joyce, who first appears in Chapter 5. Previously we considered the role of the mental health nurse in working with people experiencing acute mental health crisis. This chapter seeks to consider how as mental health nurses we might go on to work with these people to support their rehabilitation and reintegration into the community. The chapter opens by outlining some key principles of recovery and proceeds to demonstrate how these ideas might be implemented in working with both Anthony and Joyce. “The way I was feeling my sadness was mine. When I was in hospital staff rarely took time to find out what this was like for me. Not taking the time often fuelled what I was thinking: ‘I’m not worth finding out about.’ Nigel Short (2007: 23)” This service user describes how it feels to live with mental illness continuously throughout their lives, not just while they are in hospital. Professional staff may contribute to this feeling if care planning becomes too focused upon symptoms and treatment rather than person-centred care and recovery. In this context, recovery should not be seen as a new concept; rather it can be traced back at least 200 years to one of the earliest asylums, the Tuke Retreat in Yorkshire. “For it was a critical appraisal of psychiatric practice that inspired the Tuke at York to establish a clinical philosophy and therapeutic practice based on kindness, compassion, respect and hope of recovery. Roberts and Wolfson (2004: 37).” Later, during the 1960s, The Vermont Project (an American psychiatric facility) also published research on successful rehabilitative practice that was based upon ‘faith, hope and love’ (Eldred et al. 1962: 45). However, much of the current focus upon recovery practices is based on longitudinal studies in America, services in Ohio, service users were asked to identify what was important to them. This resulted in the Emerging Best Practices document that is recommended guidance in the UK today (NIMHE 2004).

Reflection and mental health nursing. Part one: is reflection important?

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-69
Author(s):  
John Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Reflective Learning ◽  
Mental Health Nursing ◽  
Mental Health Nurses ◽  
Health Nursing

In this new series, John Fowler, a noted nursing author, will explore the use of reflection in mental health nursing. Over the next eight issues, John will be examining some of the techniques that mental health nurses can use to aid their own reflection and how reflection can be applied to clinical practice and management. The series will cover portfolios, reflective learning, reflective evidence, the use of feedback and reflection in all aspects of life.

Reflection and mental health nursing. Part five: reflection for managers

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
John Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
View Point ◽  
Mental Health Nursing ◽  
Mental Health Nurses ◽  
Health Nursing

This series on reflection is examining the place and importance of reflection for all mental health nurses. This article will explore how those two important areas of management and reflection can come together and from a Gestalt view point, be greater than the sum of the parts.

Reflection and mental health nursing. Part three: reflection on the art and science of nursing

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 173-174
Author(s):  
John Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Art And Science ◽  
Mental Health Nursing ◽  
Mental Health Nurses ◽  
The Third ◽  
Health Nursing

In the third part of this series on reflection for mental health nurses, John Fowler examines the analogy of mirrors and lenses in the art and science of reflective nursing practice.

Positive psychology and its role within mental health nursing

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-87
Author(s):  
Jan Macfarlane
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Positive Thinking ◽  
Mental Health Nursing ◽  
Mental Health Nurses ◽  
Historical Outline ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
Key Terms

This is the second article in a series of articles that explores the meaning of positive psychology and the importance of applying the latest research findings for the wellbeing of the mental health workforce. There will be an historical outline of positive psychology, showing it is not as ‘new’ as people may believe. The article sets the context and explains key terms through the underpinning theoretical work of Martin Seligman. This is followed by an explanation of how it is relevant to mental health nursing, five interventions mental health nurses can use to help encourage positive thinking, and a discussion on making new skills via neuroplasticity. The practical tasks provided in the boxes throughout the article will help the reader to understand what happiness means to an individual and how it can be developed with evidence-based, user-friendly effective exercises.

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