Faith Community Nursing: Supporting Mental Health during Life Transitions

Mental Health Nursing in Community Settings

The first psychiatric nurses working in the community setting were community health nurses who developed a specialty practice in mental health. They were able to move within the community, were comfortable meeting with clients in the home or neighborhood center, were competent to act independently, used professional judgment in sometimes unanticipated situations, and possessed knowledge of comm...

A Renewed Look at Faith Community Nursing.

Professional identity in community mental health nursing: a thematic analysis.

AIM The study aimed to explore how community mental health nurses (CMHNs) UK perceived their working lives. This was subdivided into questions related to: How do nurses perceive their professional status in terms of public image compared with their understanding of their working lives? How does the relationship between professional aspirations and experiences of working life affect their feelin...

Redesigning community mental health services for urban children: Supporting schooling to promote mental health.

OBJECTIVE This study examined a school- and home-based mental health service model, Links to Learning, focused on empirical predictors of learning as primary goals for services in high-poverty urban communities. METHOD Teacher key opinion leaders were identified through sociometric surveys and trained, with mental health providers and parent advocates, on evidence-based practices to enhance c...

Mental Health Nursing

This article highlights a study into the effects of witnessing violence in a psychiatric hospital setting. The results show that the majority of respondents who had witnessed violence to a colleague experienced similar emotional distress as the victims. The authors suggest measures that may help staff in these and other clinical areas. They conclude that violence to staff should not be an accep...