Specialist practice in community mental health nursing

Hannigan, Ben ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2512-6721 1999. Specialist practice in community mental health nursing. Nurse Education Today 19 (6) , pp. 509-516. 10.1054/nedt.1999.0347

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Abstract

Community mental health nurses (CMHNs) work in an increasingly complex health and social care environment. Over recent years, the evolving direction of general health service and specific mental health policy has directed CMHNs towards: the provision of clinically-effective interventions; a closer attention to meeting the needs of people experiencing severe and long-term mental health problems; the simultaneous provision of services to meet the needs of people experiencing a wide range of mental health problems presenting in primary care settings; greater collaboration with workers representing other disciplines and agencies; and the development of active partnerships with mental health service users. This paper explores the context within which CMHNs practise, and within which education programmes preparing specialist practitioners in community mental health nursing have been developed. One recently-validated specialist practice course for CMHNs is described in detail, with the intention of stimulating discussion and debate surrounding the practice of, and the educational preparation for, community mental health nursing.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Healthcare Sciences
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry R Medicine > RT Nursing
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0260-6917
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 09:32
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/36810

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