Preparing master‐level mental health nurses to work within a wellness paradigm: Findings from the <scp>eM</scp>enthe project

  • Louise Doyle
    School of Nursing and Midwifery Trinity College Dublin Ireland
  • Heikki Ellilä
    School of Health and Wellbeing Turku University of Applied Sciences Turku Finland
  • Henrika Jormfeldt
    School of Health and Welfare Halmstad University Halmstad Sweden
  • Mari Lahti
    School of Health and Wellbeing Turku University of Applied Sciences Turku Finland
  • Agnes Higgins
    School of Nursing and Midwifery Trinity College Dublin Ireland
  • Brian Keogh
    School of Nursing and Midwifery Trinity College Dublin Ireland
  • Oonagh Meade
    School of Health Sciences University of Nottingham Nottingham UK
  • Jan Sitvast
    Master Program in Advanced Nursing Practice Utrecht University of Applied Sciences Utrecht The Netherlands
  • Ingela Skärsäter
    School of Health and Welfare Halmstad University Halmstad Sweden
  • Theo Stickley
    School of Health Sciences University of Nottingham Nottingham UK
  • Nina Kilkku
    School of Healthcare Tampere University of Applied Sciences Tampere Finland

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Mental health promotion remains an important component of mental health nursing practice. Supporting wellness at both the individual and societal levels has been identified as one of the key tenets of mental health promotion. However, the prevailing biomedical paradigm of mental health education and practice has meant that many nurses have not been equipped to incorporate a wellness perspective into their mental health practice. In the present study, we report on an exploratory study which details the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required by master‐level mental health nurses to practice within a wellness paradigm from the perspective of three groups of key stakeholders: (i) service users and family members (<jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 23); (ii) experienced mental health nurses (<jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 49); and (iii) master‐level mental health nursing students (<jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 37). The findings, which were reported from individual and focus group interviews across five European countries, suggested a need to reorientate mental health nursing education to include a focus on wellness and resilience to equip mental health nurses with the skills to work within a strengths‐based, rather than a deficits‐based, model of mental health practice. Key challenges to working within a wellness paradigm were identified as the prevailing dominance of the biomedical model of cause and treatment of mental health problems, which focusses on symptoms, rather than the holistic functioning of the individual, and positions the person as passive in the nurse–service user relationship.</jats:p>

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