- Title
- “But I’m not going to be a mental health nurse”: nursing students’ perceptions of the influence of experts by experience on their attitudes to mental health nursing
- Creator
- Happell, Brenda; Waks, Shifra; Bocking, Julia; Horgan, Aine; Manning, Fionnuala; Greaney, Sonya; Goodwin, John; Scholz, Brett; van der Vaart, Kornelis Jan; Allon, Jerry; Hals, Elisabeth; Granerud, Arild; Doody, Rory; Chan, Sally Wai-Chi; Lahti, Mari; Ellilä, Heikki; Pulli, Jarmo; Vatula, Annaliina; Platania-Phung, Chris; Browne, Graeme
- Relation
- Journal of Mental Health Vol. 30, Issue 5, p. 556-563
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2019.1677872
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Background: Mental health nursing skills and knowledge are vital for the provision of high-quality healthcare across all settings. Negative attitudes of nurses, towards both mental illness and mental health nursing as a profession, limit recognition of the value of these skills and knowledge. Experts by Experience have a significant role in enhancing mental health nursing education. The impact of this involvement on attitudes to mental health nursing has not been well researched. Aim: To explore the impact of Expert by Experience-led teaching on students’ perceptions of mental health nursing. Methods: Qualitative exploratory study involving focus groups with nursing students from five European countries and Australia. Results: Following Expert by Experience-led teaching, participants described more positive views towards mental health nursing skills and knowledge in three main ways: learning that mental health is everywhere, becoming better practitioners, and better appreciation of mental health nursing. Conclusions: Experts by experience contribute to promoting positive attitudinal change in nursing students towards mental health nursing skills and knowledge. Attitudinal change is essential for the provision of high-quality mental health care in specialist mental health services and throughout the healthcare sector.
- Subject
- attitudes education of health professionals; experts by experiencemental health mental health nursing nurse education; mental health mental health nursing nurse education; nursing practice
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1463897
- Identifier
- uon:46865
- Identifier
- ISSN:0963-8237
- Language
- eng
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