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Dilemmas and directions for psychiatric nursing in the 1990s
P C Pothier1, G W Stuart, K Puskar
1School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco 94143.
Abstract:
Problems with the recruitment of nurses to the specialty area of psychiatric nursing have stimulated much debate and discussion in the field. This article explores dimensions of psychiatric nursing education, science, and practice and their impact on the future of this specialty area of nursing. It proposes that the present task is to define more precisely the continuum of psychiatric mental health nursing both to differentiate between psychosocial (mental health) and psychiatric (mental illness) components of the role and balance the priority that psychiatric nurses give to each in educational curricula, research agendas, and practice settings.
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