Caring About the Shape of Mental Health Nursing: A survey investigating practitioner’s perceptions towards potential changes to undergraduate education

Lambert, Nicky and Hemingway, Steve (2016) Caring About the Shape of Mental Health Nursing: A survey investigating practitioner’s perceptions towards potential changes to undergraduate education. British Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 5 (3). pp. 111-117. ISSN 2049-5919

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Abstract

While there is a growing disquiet about the future of mental health nursing, there is little in the way of an organised, unified response from mental health nurses. The Health and Social Care Information Centre report a fall in the number of mental health nurses of more than 10% over the past five years. A survey was launched to explore stakeholders perspectives on the future of mental health nursing. The interest in and the analysis of this survey indicates that we are at the start of a key discussion rather than at the end point of consensus. It is vital that mental health nurses have opportunities to consider and test their opinions on these issues and the confidence to speak up and be heard

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RT Nursing
Schools:	School of Human and Health Sciences
Related URLs:	Author
Depositing User:	Elizabeth Boulton
Date Deposited:	24 May 2016 15:36
Last Modified:	23 Dec 2016 03:21
URI:	http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/28424

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