Reconceptualizingthe theory-practice gap in mental health nursing
Nurse Education TodayPublished 1 June 1996
John Hopton
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A unified model of clinical nursing practice, nurse education and user involvement is proposed, which would place nurse educators at the forefront of radical reform of mental health services.
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The purpose of this paper is to identify the key problems in bridging the gap between theory and practice in the education of mental health nurses and to propose a strategy for overcoming these problems. The paper begins by reviewing the existing literature on the subject of the theory-practice gap, and identifying the unique problems which mental health nursing faces in attempting to address them. It then goes on to propose a unified model of clinical nursing practice, nurse education and user involvement, which would place nurse educators at the forefront of radical reform of mental health services.
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