Too Busy to Talk: Examining Service User Involvement in Nursing Work

Issues in Mental Health Nursing
Julia Terry, M Coffey

Abstract

Traditional ideas of mental health nursing are challenged in contemporary healthcare settings by developments focussed on more partnership and collaboration with people using mental health services. Yet service users have reported limited involvement in planning their own care. The purpose of this research was to explore accounts from multiple perspectives about service user involvement in mental health nursing processes. Qualitative research interviews and focus groups with mental health nursing students (n = 18), qualified nurses (n = 17) and service users (n = 13) were conducted, audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Participants' transcribed talk was thematically analysed to examine understandings about service user involvement and mental health nursing. Nursing work was often described as task-focussed, with limited collaboration with service users in areas like care planning. Service user involvement was seldom mentioned by nurses themselves, indicating it did not form an important part of mental health nursing processes. Mental health nurses appear to be complicit in care processes that do not include involvement of service users and may discourage novice practitioners from attempts at engagement.

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