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The Human Science Basis of Psychiatric Nursing: Theory and Practice
Author(s) -
Barker P.J.,
Reynolds W.,
Stevenson C.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
perspectives in psychiatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6163
pISSN - 0031-5990
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6163.1998.tb00995.x
Subject(s) - mental illness , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , nursing , mental health nursing , psychiatry , psychology , nursing theory , mental health , value (mathematics) , medicine , medline , political science , law , machine learning , computer science
Psychiatric nurses in the United Kingdom (UK) have begun to reattend to people with ‘serious and enduring mental illness’. At the same time research in the USA and UK has refocused much of its attention on neuroscientific theories and models of serious mental illness. Psychiatric nurses are being encouraged to consider the value of biomedical explanations of serious illness, such as schizophrenia, and to accommodate these theories and models in the practice of nursing. This paper will examine the challenge of biomedical approach for the continued development of psychiatric nursing needs to develop further its own ‘proper focus’, if it is to survive as a key player in the health care field of the 21st century.