- Title
- Perceptions from the front line : Professional identity in mental health nursing
- Creator
- Hercelinskyj, Gylo; Cruickshank, Mary; Brown, Peter; Phillips, Brian
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/158777
- Identifier
- vital:11851
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.12001
- Identifier
- ISSN:1445-8330
- Abstract
- In the context of a growing population of people experiencing mental illness worldwide, mental health nurses are a crucial workforce. Their recruitment and retention, however, is in decline. Drawing on qualitative data obtained from interviews with mental health nurses () in ictoria, Australia, the paper employs a range of concepts from role theory to explore professional identity within mental health nursing. The data highlight three key issues in relation to the future recruitment and retention of : (i) the ambiguity of the role; (ii) the weak definition and lack of understanding of the scope of the role by nursing students; and (iii) a lack of communication about as a profession to a wider audience. These findings indicate three avenues through which recruitment and retention in mental health nursing could be improved: (i) public communication; (ii) training and educating of the next generation of ; and (iii) more accurately defining the role of the MHN.
- Publisher
- Australasian College of Mental Health Nurses and Wiley
- Relation
- International Journal of Mental Health Nursing Vol. 23, no. 1 (2014), p. 24-32
- Rights
- Copyright © 2012 The Authors
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1110 Nursing; 1117 Public Health and Health Services; 1701 Psychology; Identity; Mental health nurse; Qualitative; Recruitment and retention; Role
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