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From self‐reflection to shared recognition: Reconceptualising mental health nursing as an intersubjective phenomenon.
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Nursing Inquiry . Oct2024, Vol. 31 Issue 4, p1-8. 8p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Existing challenges to the legitimacy of mental health nursing in the United Kingdom and beyond have stimulated a critical self‐reflection and discourse around the mental health nursing role, forcing the profession to question its identity and critically re‐evaluate its position within the wider healthcare arena. In this discussion paper, I suggest that the current difficulties in conceptualising mental health nurse identity arise from our role being inherently interwoven with distinctive challenges and unique needs of our service users. Emerging from this idea is that the 'being' (and the 'doing') of mental health nursing is firmly situated within the sphere of intersubjective relations. Drawing upon Hegel's ideas of reciprocal recognitive relations, to support the notion that our profession's role and purpose are better understood when defined in relation to the work that we do with our service users, I argue that it is in the understanding (and even embracing) of intersubjectivity as a core principle of mental health nursing, where we might not just better understand ourselves but also know how to shift asymmetric relations with our service users towards those which are more commensurate and mutually beneficial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *NURSES
*POWER (Social sciences)
*OCCUPATIONAL roles
*OCCUPATIONAL achievement
*INTERPROFESSIONAL relations
*MENTAL health services
*NURSING models
*PROFESSIONAL identity
*REFLECTION (Philosophy)
*PSYCHIATRIC nurses
*EXPERIENCE
*NURSING practice
*PSYCHIATRIC nursing
*MEDICAL needs assessment
*SELF-perception
*INTEGRATED health care delivery
*HEALTH care teams
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13207881
- Volume :
- 31
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Nursing Inquiry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 180410679
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12675