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Article: Where Is the Mental Health in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing?
- Article from:
- Perspectives in Psychiatric Care
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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I have been wondering lately, what happened to mental health in America? I have wondered about the role of psychiatric mental health nurses in addressing the mental health problems that seem to be everywhere. As a psychiatric nurse, I have always thought I knew madness. I thought I understood normal. I learned it contextualized in the nosology of disease, assessed and treated in the confines of healthcare settings. But as I find myself surrounded more and more by a world focused on terrorists and bombings, on violence and shootings, and on natural disasters that are as sudden as they are devastating, I am beginning to realize that I was wrong. Increasingly, as I watch the mental health of ...