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Informationen zum Autor Stephen Tilley is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Klappentext Who and what are mental health nurses now, and what might they become? In this book a number of prominent nurse educators and practitioners present their answers to these questions. Each contributor presents a different "version" of the mental health nurse stimulating students, teachers and practitioners to read and think more widely about mental health nursing. The Mental Health Nurse is a turn in dialogue inviting those contemplating a career in mental health nursing to imagine shaping the future, and those more established in practice to reflect on their own "version" of the nurse. Written by a team of experienced practitioners in mental health, the chapters draw directly on Zusammenfassung In this text! nurse educators and practitioners review the role of the modern mental health nurse. Each contributor presents a different "version" of the mental health nurse encouraging students! teachers and practitioners to read and think more widely about mental health nursing. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...