The Mental Health Nurse: Views of Practice and Education

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