Hold on to the good: Change vs continuity in nursing on acute mental health care wards

I recently met someone with whom I had worked on a psychiatric ward over 20 years ago; he had been an exceptionally skilled mental health nurse who had reached a senior managerial position in mental health services but had quit because he would not tolerate being accountable for decisions which he knew would be detrimental to nurses and patients. I asked if he would ever consider returning to work in mental health care. “Never,” he said, “because the job we did doesn’t exist anymore”. Has mental health nursing changed this much? Is it worse than it was 25 years ago when I first started, or 50 years ago? How would we know?
Source: International Journal of Nursing Studies - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Guest Editorial Source Type: research