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Names: Smith, Grahame, author. | Rylance, Rebecca, 1969– , author.
Title: Rapid mental health nursing / Grahame Smith, Rebecca Rylance.
Description: Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015042381 | ISBN 9781119045007 (pbk.)
Subjects: | MESH: Mental Disorders–nursing–Problems and Exercises. | Psychiatric Nursing–methods–Problems and Exercises.
Classification: LCC RC440 | NLM WY 18.2 | DDC 616.89/0231–dc23
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This book complements Mental Health Nursing at a Glance and, similar to that text, is written with the pre-registration mental health nursing student in mind as a ‘revision or notes’ text; it is also designed to be a refresher text for registered mental health nurses. The structure of each chapter is intended to support the UK student’s learning journey; each chapter is explicitly underpinned by the Nursing & Midwifery Council’s (NMC’s) Standards for Pre-registration Nursing Education (NMC 2010). As befits a Rapid series text, each chapter is a concise summary of the subject being explored and, in addition, this book has been designed to be easy for the mental health nursing student to carry around.
To place the book within a professional context, the NMC’s Standards for Pre-registration Nursing Education aim to:
…. enable nurses to give and support high-quality care in rapidly changing environments. They reflect how future services are likely to be delivered, acknowledge future public health priorities and address the challenges of long-term conditions, an aging population, and providing more care outside hospitals. Nurses must be equipped to lead, delegate, supervise and challenge other nurses and healthcare professionals. They must be able to develop practice, and promote and sustain change. As graduates they must be able to think analytically, use problem-solving approaches and evidence in decision-making, keep up with technical advances and meet future expectations.
(NMC 2010: 4–5)
Further to this aim, the NMC expect that by the end of training a pre-registration nursing student will be competent and possess the required knowledge, skills and attitudes. These requirements are set out in a competency framework for each field of nursing, which is organised into four domains:
Each domain describes the competencies the student is expected to achieve by end of their training, and each chapter of this book is underpinned by these domain competencies. In addition to generic skills, mental health nursing students are expected to develop field-specific skills. These different skill types complement each other to ensure that, at the point of registration, a mental health nurse has a holistic set of competencies that they can apply in many different contexts. Taking the different skill types into consideration, the first section of this book is focused on generic skills, followed by two field-specific sections. Overall the book is divided into three main sections:
These three main sections are supported by:
The structure of the book will provide the student nurse with a clear sense of direction in their journey towards qualification. It is, however, not a replacement for more in-depth texts within the field of mental health nursing. In addition, the student nurse should apply both generic and field competencies in an integrated and fluid way, and with the support of their mentor.