Promoting recovery-oriented mental health nursing practice through consumer participation in mental health nursing education
Background: Developing recovery-oriented services, and ensuring genuine consumer participation in all aspects of services are central components of contemporary Australian mental health policy. However, attitudes of mental health professionals present a significant barrier. Given the positive impact...
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| author | Happell, B. Bennetts, W. Tohotoa, J. Wynaden, Dianne Platania-Phung, C. |
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| description | Background: Developing recovery-oriented services, and ensuring genuine consumer participation in all aspects of services are central components of contemporary Australian mental health policy. However, attitudes of mental health professionals present a significant barrier. Given the positive impact of education on health professionals’ attitudes, particularly when consumers are involved, further exploration of consumer involvement in education is required. Aims: To enhance understanding of the role consumers can play within mental health nursing education. Method: A qualitative exploratory project was undertaken involving individual interviews with mental health nurse academics and consumer educators. Results: Two main themes emerged from nurse participants: Recovery in action, consumer educators were able to demonstrate and describe their own recovery journey; and not representative, some participants believed consumer educators did not necessary reflect views and opinions of consumers more broadly. Two main themes for consumers were: the truth about recovery, consumer educators demonstrated recovery as an achievable goal; and not a real consumer, where health professionals to dismiss the consumer experience as unrepresentative and therefore not credible. Conclusions: Consumer participation can contribute positively to nurse education, however representativeness presents a major barrier, potentially enabling nurses to dismiss experiences of consumer academics and educators as exceptional rather than typical. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-536712017-10-24T03:34:03Z Promoting recovery-oriented mental health nursing practice through consumer participation in mental health nursing education Happell, B. Bennetts, W. Tohotoa, J. Wynaden, Dianne Platania-Phung, C. Background: Developing recovery-oriented services, and ensuring genuine consumer participation in all aspects of services are central components of contemporary Australian mental health policy. However, attitudes of mental health professionals present a significant barrier. Given the positive impact of education on health professionals’ attitudes, particularly when consumers are involved, further exploration of consumer involvement in education is required. Aims: To enhance understanding of the role consumers can play within mental health nursing education. Method: A qualitative exploratory project was undertaken involving individual interviews with mental health nurse academics and consumer educators. Results: Two main themes emerged from nurse participants: Recovery in action, consumer educators were able to demonstrate and describe their own recovery journey; and not representative, some participants believed consumer educators did not necessary reflect views and opinions of consumers more broadly. Two main themes for consumers were: the truth about recovery, consumer educators demonstrated recovery as an achievable goal; and not a real consumer, where health professionals to dismiss the consumer experience as unrepresentative and therefore not credible. Conclusions: Consumer participation can contribute positively to nurse education, however representativeness presents a major barrier, potentially enabling nurses to dismiss experiences of consumer academics and educators as exceptional rather than typical. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53671 10.1080/09638237.2017.1294734 Informa Healthcare restricted |
| spellingShingle | Happell, B. Bennetts, W. Tohotoa, J. Wynaden, Dianne Platania-Phung, C. Promoting recovery-oriented mental health nursing practice through consumer participation in mental health nursing education |
| title | Promoting recovery-oriented mental health nursing practice through consumer participation in mental health nursing education |
| title_full | Promoting recovery-oriented mental health nursing practice through consumer participation in mental health nursing education |
| title_fullStr | Promoting recovery-oriented mental health nursing practice through consumer participation in mental health nursing education |
| title_full_unstemmed | Promoting recovery-oriented mental health nursing practice through consumer participation in mental health nursing education |
| title_short | Promoting recovery-oriented mental health nursing practice through consumer participation in mental health nursing education |
| title_sort | promoting recovery-oriented mental health nursing practice through consumer participation in mental health nursing education |
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