The perspective of psychiatric nurses by the European Psychiatric Nurses (Horatio)

TL;DR

This paper discusses the role of psychiatric nurses in shaping mental health services through collaboration and addressing challenges like professional shortages.

Contribution

It highlights the need for collaborative, rights-based, and recovery-oriented approaches in mental health care development.

Findings

Psychiatric nurses are key in developing mental health services that meet current support needs.

Collaboration with service users, families, and NGOs is essential for novel mental health solutions.

Professional shortages require innovative strategies to attract and retain mental health professionals.

Abstract

In the health care system, nurses are often the biggest professional group and therefore their role is important in the development of service system to meet the current needs of support and help in mental health. Novel solutions are needed, solutions which are not only developed between the professionals, but in collaboration with the people seeking for help, family members, other social networks, and different service providers, like NGOs. Human rights and community-based approaches are guiding this development together with the principles of recovery approach. At the same time there are challenges to overcome, like the shortage of professionals, which also demand new kind of collaboration and solutions to make the field of mental health attractive for future professionals and to support the retention of those who are working in practice at the moment. In the joint symposium the viewpoint of mental health/psychiatric nurses on these issues will be presented.

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