Lessons from a lost world: messages from the mental hospital era

TY - JOUR

T1 - Lessons from a lost world

T2 - messages from the mental hospital era

AU - McCrae, Niall

N1 - This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

PY - 2017/10/30

Y1 - 2017/10/30

N2 - Pertinent questions, you might think. Yet in my experience, as a nurse educator and extracurricular historian of mental health nursing, they are not readily answerable by qualified or budding practitioners. The first would expose a remarkable lack of celebrated figures in our field. General nursing has its heroine in Florence Nightingale, but asking students to name pioneers of psychiatric nursing draws a blank stare. The second question relates to the transformation from institutional to community-based care. Perceptions of the asylum are often polarised between a dark age of oppression and a pastoral idyll. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

AB - Pertinent questions, you might think. Yet in my experience, as a nurse educator and extracurricular historian of mental health nursing, they are not readily answerable by qualified or budding practitioners. The first would expose a remarkable lack of celebrated figures in our field. General nursing has its heroine in Florence Nightingale, but asking students to name pioneers of psychiatric nursing draws a blank stare. The second question relates to the transformation from institutional to community-based care. Perceptions of the asylum are often polarised between a dark age of oppression and a pastoral idyll. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

U2 - 10.1111/jan.13467

DO - 10.1111/jan.13467

M3 - Editorial

C2 - 28981967

SN - 0309-2402

JO - Journal of Advanced Nursing

JF - Journal of Advanced Nursing

ER -