What is it about?
Like a museum with carefully positioned exhibits mental health nursing would look different if the display of fashionable dead things in its cultural lineage were viewed through a different lens. This paper has the aim of using transcribed interview data from mental health nurses to explore how their perception of nursing culture represents a particular historical identity (pseudo names given to ensure confidentiality).
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Why is it important?
This article explores the idea that it is the space between and prominence of exhibits on displayed in a museum that informs the viewer of their perceived value. Thus, objective historical truth is a thing of the past, perception and persuasion. All that is left is care, compassion and courage.
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D . - D . HOLYOAKE P hD MSc P G Di p B Sc (Ho n s ) B A Di p C P C Di p C h i l d Ps y c h o l P G Ce r t ED RMN Dean, SHAW, University of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, Walsall, UK
Dr Dean-David Holyoake
University of Wolverhampton
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This page is a summary of: Care, compassion and courage: the museum of mental health nursing - an ethnographic archaeology, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, February 2013, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jpm.12050.
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