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What education and training do mental health nurses want?
Contents
Acknowledgements 2
Executive summary 3
1. Introduction 5
1.1 Aim of the study 5
1.2 Method 5
1.2.1 The focus groups 5
1.2.2 The questionnaire survey 6
1.2.2.1 Sample 6
1.2.2.2 Response rate 6
1.2.2.3 Analysis 6
2.Results: the focus groups 7
2.1 What type of post-registration education and training do mental health nurses want? 7
2.1.1 What type of skills? 7
2.1.2 Transferring knowledge into practice 7
2.2 The delivery of education and training 8
2.3 Barriers to education and training 9
2.4 What type of accreditation/qualification do
mental health nurses want? 10
3.Results: the questionnaire survey 11
3.1 Demographic characteristics of the respondents 11
3.2 What type of post-registration education and training do mental health nurses want? 13
3.3 Preferred method of training delivery 16
3.4 What type of accreditation/qualification do mental health nurses want? 17
Recommendations
Recommendation 1: A well-educated and skilled nursing workforce is crucial to the delivery of safe and effective acute inpatient care.
It is a major challenge to mental health services in the UK to ensure that mental health nurses working in acute inpatient settings are equipped with the right knowledge, skills and experience to deliver high-quality mental health care, as defined by the National Service Framework and NHS Plan.
Recommendation 2: Student nurses require better preparation at the pre-registration education level.
A key finding of the research is that newly qualified mental health nurses consider that they lack practical nursing skills.This finding reflects upon the problems associated with pre-registration training in the UK at present – it has become widely accepted that the current structure of pre-registration programmes is failing to facilitate the development of adequate practice knowledge and skills.This situation requires urgent attention.
Recommendation 3: Qualified nurses require specialist post-registration education and training to work with people with acute mental health problems.
This research demonstrates that nurses require postregistration education and training in key specialist areas for working in acute inpatient settings, in particular: risk assessment,management of violence and aggression, psychosocial interventions and skills to work with some of the most challenging clients when they are acutely unwell.
Recommendation 4: The role of experienced practitioners in supervising and supporting less experienced staff is crucial.
In the focus groups many nurses talked about the value of having the support of skilled and experienced practitioners to provide ongoing training, supervision and mentorship. The importance of such support and clinical leadership cannot be underestimated.
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