The Mental Health Nurse: Views of Practice and Education

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;.

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