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The work style of students of mental health nursing undertaking the Project 2000 schemes of training: a logical analysis
Author(s) -
Drummond John S
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1990.tb01954.x
Subject(s) - mental health , style (visual arts) , psychology , nursing , work (physics) , cognition , process (computing) , cognitive style , nurse education , medical education , medicine , computer science , psychotherapist , psychiatry , mechanical engineering , archaeology , engineering , history , operating system
The work methods of students of mental health nursing are analysed to see which are best suited to facilitate the central educational aims of the Project 2000 schemes of training Supervised primary nursing is found to be best because it engenders a professional cognitive style and a heightened sensitivity to the empirical, research‐based culture It is argued that team nursing causes, in its practitioners, a bureaucratic cognitive style, which acts as a structural constraint upon the learning and mastery of the process skills advocated by the Project 2000 authors