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Forensic Mental Health Nursing: Capabilities Roles & Responsibility
Quay books, Jan 2008, Pages: 370
This book is about issues related to the role and function of the forensic mental health nurse. The book originated from the determination of the National Forensic Nurses’ Research and Development Group to contribute to the development of forensic and other aspects of mental health nursing. It is aimed at helping nurses to understand the changing nature and multiplicity of roles of the forensic mental health nurse, in order to enable the provision of appropriate care to patients, their carers, families and significant/relevant others, including the person harmed (the victim or survivor of an offence).
It is also aimed at enabling a greater understanding to develop between professions and is designed to give examples of how professionals can work together. Much of the content of this book is relevant to forensic learning disability nursing; and to other forensic and prison mental health professionals, and to service users and organisations representing their rights and interests.
While ‘forensic’ can have different meanings for different people, in this book the following definition is used: Forensic means of the law, and is based on the Latin word ‘forum’, meaning ‘what is out of doors’… The Ancient Romans met outside in…[forums] for public meetings, political debates and public legal hearings to try offenders… In the United Kingdom, forensic mental health nurses work with the relatively small proportion of individuals whose mental health problems are associated with offending behaviour. (Kettles et al, 2007:1, quoting Soanes, 2002 and citing Parker, 1985)
Forensic mental health nursing and forensic learning disability nursing are small but growing branches of nursing practice that occur in a wide range of settings, and continue to extend to other areas. The latter include hospitals and units offering low, medium and high security, ‘court diversion schemes (e.g. in magistrates’ [sheriff and high] courts), prisons, young offender institutions, police stations’ (Kettles et al, 2007:1), community settings, and accident and McGregor Kettles, Woods and Byrt emergency units (McClelland et al, 2001; Rowe and Lopes, 2003; Wix and Humphreys, 2005). Forensic mental health nurses also work with a greater variety of professionals than, for example, nurses working in acute mental health care.
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