The Mental Health Nurse

Views of Practice and Education
Herausgeber: Tilley, Stephen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780632039999
• ISBN-10: 063203999X
• Artikelnr.: 22170821

Autorenporträt

Stephen Tilley is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

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