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Organizing and delivering training for acute mental health services: a discussion paper
Author(s) -
BEE P. E.,
BAKER J. A.,
RICHARDS D. A.,
LOFTUS S. J.,
BAILEY L.,
LOVELL K.,
WOODS P.,
COX D.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1365-2850
pISSN - 1351-0126
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2004.00805.x
Subject(s) - mental health , training (meteorology) , nursing , work (physics) , quality (philosophy) , medicine , medical education , psychology , psychiatry , engineering , mechanical engineering , philosophy , physics , epistemology , meteorology
Recent policy statements that address the quality of care provided by acute mental health services have highlighted an urgent need for specialist nurse education and training. However, examples of how to design and implement such training initiatives are sparse. Drawing on recent experience of developing an innovative training programme for acute psychiatric settings, this paper seeks to examine some of the key issues associated with current training provision for acute inpatient mental health workers. The methodological and practical concerns surrounding this type of initiative are discussed with the main aspects of programme content, service user participation, team training and organizational challenges being explored. Resulting from this work, several recommendations regarding the content, organization and delivery of future training initiatives are made.