title: Pulling together: multi-disciplinary training for mental health nursing.
abstract: In 1995 the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health commissioned a major review of all specialist mental health training. The current, largely uni-disciplinary approach to training was felt to be failing to equip professionals with the necessary skills for today's multi-disciplinary, integrated, community-based service, where users and their carers expect an equal partnership and sharing of information. Kevin Gournay and Susannah Strong outline the findings and recommendations of the review, and its implications for mental health nurse education, which make a case for its separation from the rest of the nursing profession.
authors.affiliation: Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gournay
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Strong
mesh_terms: D002568:Certification; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards*; D006113:United Kingdom