Title: Key Debates in psychiatric/mental health nursing
Abstract: Foreword by Sandra Thomas Foreword by Antony Sheehan Preface List of Contributors Acknowledgements Chapter 1 - Introduction - Debate within psychiatric/mental health nursing its nature, its place and its necessity (John R. Cutcliffe and Martin F. Ward) Debate 1: What's in a name? Psychiatric or mental health nurses? Editorial Chapter 2 - The case for mental health nurses (Mary Chambers) Chapter 3 - The case for psychiatric nurses (Phyllis Du Mont) Commentary (John Collins) Debate 2: Reconciliatory or recalcitrant: should psychiatric/mental health nursing strive for independence from or be closely allied to psychiatric medicine? Editorial Chapter 4 - Psychiatry and psychiatric nursing in the New World Order (Peter Morrall) Chapter 5 - Declaring conceptual independence from obsolete professional affilitions (Liam Clarke) Commentary (Jon Allen) Debate 3: Heterogenous or homogenize: should psychiatric/mental health nursing have a specialist or genetic preparation? Editorial Chapter 6 - Generic nurses: the nemesis of psychiatric/mental health nursing? (John R. Cutcliffe and Hugh McKenna) Chapter 7 - Debating the integration of psychiatric/mental health nursing content in undergraduate nursing programs (Olive Younge and Geertje Boschma) Commentary (Stephen Tilley) Debate 4: Practice or theory centred: should psychiatric/mental health nursing be located within higher education and have a theory emphasis, or should it be practice orientated? editorial Chapter 8 - The case for maintaining psychiatric/mental health nurse preparation within higher education (Ben Hannigan and Michael Coffey) Chapter 9 - Theory vs practice - gap or chasm? the preparation of practitioners: academic and practice issues (Linda Marie Lowe) Commentary (Marita Valimaki) Debate 5: Dealing with violence and aggression in psychiatric/mental health nursing: the case of 'control and restraint' and 'de-escalation'. Editorial Chapter 10 - Managing violence - a contemporary challenge for psychiatric/mental health nurses: the case for control and restraint (James Noak, Sean Conway and John Carthy) Chapter 11 - Issues and concerns about control and restraint training moving the debate forward (Andrew McDonnell and Ian Gallon) Commentary (Malcolm Rae) Debate 6: Expansion or diminution of our character, essence and core: the matter of nurse prescribing in psychiatric/mental health nursing. Editorial Chapter 12 - Gently applying the brakes - the case against nurse prescribing in psychiatric/mental health nursing (Tom Keen) Chapter 13 - Psychiatric/mental healyth nurses as non-medical prescribers: the case for nurse prescribing (Katharine Bailey and Steve Hemingway) Commentary (Dawn Freshwater) Debate 7: Caring for the suicidal person - the modus operandi: engagement or operation? Editorial Chapter 14 - Considering the care of the suicidal client and the case for 'engagement and inspiring hope' or 'observations' (John R. Cutcliffe and Phil Barker) Chapter 15 - Close observations: the scaprgoat of mental health care? (Martin Ward and Julia Jones) Commentary (Peter Campbell) Debate 8: The standardization of psychiatric/mental health nursing: eliminating confusion or settling for mediocrity? Editorial: Chapter 16 - In favour of standardization (Susan McCabe) Chapter 17 - Against standardization (Gary Rolfe) Commentary (Wendy Austin) Debate 9: An appropriate, useful and meaningful research paradigm for psychiatric/mental health nurses: the qualitative - quantative debate. Editorial Chapter 18 - Qualifying psychiatric/mental health nursing research (Chris Stevenson) Chapter 19 - An appropriate, useful and meaningful research paradigm for psychiatric/mental health nurses: pro qualitative methods (on being a good craftsman) (Nigel Wellman) Commentary (Philip Burnard) Debate 10: The proper focus: should psychiatric/mental health nursing have a humanistic or biological emphasis? Editorial Chapter 20 - Psychiatric/mental health nursing: biological perspectives (Kevin Gournay) Chapter 21 - Biological psychiatry vs humanism: Why taking meaning seriously in mental health practice is not inferior (Michael Clinton) Commentary (Bryn Davis) Index
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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