Mental Health Nursing

Mental Health Nursing

Abstract

Background

A national consultation exercise was held as part of a review of previous term mental health nursing next term in England.

Objectives

To gather views as to how best to develop previous term mental health nursing next term to support a holistic approach to care, taking into account psychological, physical social and spiritual needs.

Design

National open consultation by email over a 3-month period.

Participants

326 written replies were received. The largest group of responses was from National previous termHealthnext term Service (NHS) organisations (n=92, 28.2%); 69.9% of responses were from groups or organisations (n=225).

Methods

A consultation document was devised by a national reference group, including four questions relating to the development of practice in the four domains of: psychological, physical, social and spiritual care.

Results

The majority of responses supported previous term mental healthnext term nurses (MHNs) providing psychological therapies (n=271, 95.1%). To support this happening, responders most frequently described a need for appropriate specialist training post-registration (n=114). To improve physical well-being of service users, the most frequent suggestion was that MHNs should promote healthy lifestyles, e.g. by encouraging physical activity and advising on ways to reduce illicit drug, alcohol and tobacco use (n=152). Responders most frequently cited the need for MHNs to understand resources to support social inclusion (n=110), e.g. knowing how to access local resources, benefits, housing and employment advice. MHNs were most frequently seen as requiring appropriate training to help them support spiritual/religious needs (n=96).

Conclusions

The consultation was successful in obtaining views, in particular, of organisations and groups. These subsequently influenced national recommendations made by the Chief previous termNursingnext term Officer's Review of previous termMental Health Nursing.next term

Table of Content

Chapter I5

Introduction5

Chapter II7

Background/literature7

Chapter III9

Methods9

Rationale9

Sample10

Data collection10

Ethical considerations11

Data analysis12

Chapter IV13

Results13

Adjustment to problem based learning15

Discussion17

Chapter V21

Conclusion21

Chapter I

Introduction

During the last five years, pre-registration nurse education programmes in the UK have been reviewed and revalidated to incorporate new policy requirements, standards and learning outcomes (Department of Health, 1999, English National Board for Nursing, 2000 English National Board for previous termNursing,next term Midwifery and previous termHealthnext term Visiting, 2000. Education in focus: strengthening pre-registration previous termnursingnext term and midwifery - curriculum guidance and requirements. ENB, London.English National Board for Nursing, 2000 and United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, 1999). Evaluations of these changes emphasise the importance of effective mentorship and practice educators, the role of newly qualified nurses as change agents and the employability of this new type of qualified nurse (Gerrish, 2002, Lord, 2002 and Tingle, 2002). Studies also suggest that the students on these programmes are still being subjected to the many stressors that previously affected learners on the Project 2000 (P2K) programmes (Deary et al., 2003, Last and Fullbrook, 2003 and Randle, 2003). It could be postulated that these stressors are intensified owing to the major changes associated with the introduction of a radically different curriculum and new learning strategies.

When the new pathways were introduced, many universities were influenced by developments in problem-based learning and so integrated these principles into the revised programmes. Problem based learning (PBL) is an educational strategy that focuses on the learning and ...