Being a mental health nurse can be a fraught experience, leading the reflective practitioner to question where they sit in relation to fellow nurses, fellow mental health professionals, patients and service users. We may question our position in relation to the broad spectrum of fellow mental health nurse colleagues, who work in a diversity of settings (compare the mental health nurse in a high secure setting with one working in a dementia memory clinic, for example). Whilst some aspects of mental health nursing are tasks, such as completing assessments and administering medication, mental health nurses themselves define the work in terms of forming and maintaining therapeutic relationships, 'therapeutic use of self' (Hurley et al, 2009) and 'being with' people (Hercelinskyj, 2014). This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 August 2017.
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#9,600,222
of 34,372,222 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing
#510
of 1,536 outputs
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#109,114
of 362,056 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing
#27
of 34 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,372,222 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 70th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,536 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 60% of its peers.
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