title: Obstacles to defining the role of the mental health nurse.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This article review 0s the available literature to find a definition of the primary function of the mental health nurse.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A number of obstacles were encountered that would need to be tackled to achieve a consistency of thought across the profession.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hamblet
mesh_terms: D003405:Creativity; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016294:Models, Nursing; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D019555:Physician-Nurse Relations; D011209:Power, Psychological; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D011361:Professional Competence / Q000592:standards; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000458:organization & administration; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000451:nursing