The workplace and nurses with a mental illness

Title: The workplace and nurses with a mental illness
Creator: Joyce, Terry; McMillan, Margaret; Hazelton, Michael
Relation: International Journal of Mental Health Nursing Vol. 18, Issue 6, p. 391-397
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1447-0349.2009.00629.x
Publisher: Wiley Blackwell Publishing Asia
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2009
Description: A qualitative approach was used to explore workplace experiences of nurses who have a mental illness. Interview transcripts from 29 nurses in New South Wales, Australia were subjected to discourse analysis. One significant finding was a theme depicting the need for support and trust. This superordinate theme encompassed four subelements: declaring mental illnesses, collegial support, managerial support, and enhancing support. Most of the participants portrayed their workplace as an unsupportive and negative environment. A number of colleagues were depicted as having little regard for the codes for professional nursing practice. This paper shows how nurses in the study dealt with the workplace support associated with mental illness.
Subject: discourse analysis; mental illness; nurses; psychiatric; support
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/807015
Identifier: uon:7278
Identifier: ISSN:1445-8330
Language: eng
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