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Expanding roles within mental health legislation: an opportunity for professional growth or a missed opportunity?
Author(s) -
HURLEY J.,
LINSLEY P.
Publication year - 2007
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.1365-2850.2007.01124.x
Subject(s) - legislature , mental health , legislation , multidisciplinary approach , mental health nursing , nursing , power (physics) , service (business) , political science , public relations , medicine , psychology , law , psychiatry , business , physics , quantum mechanics , marketing
This paper aims to highlight both the necessity, and the way forward for mental health nursing to integrate proposed legislative roles into practice. Argued is that community mental health nursing, historically absent from active participation within mental health law in the UK, is faced with new and demanding roles under proposed changes to the 1983 Mental Health Act of England and Wales. While supporting multidisciplinary training for such roles, the imperative of incorporating nursing specific values into consequent training programs is addressed through the offered educative framework. This framework explores the issues of power, ethics, legislative thematics and application to contemporary service structures.