title: Evidence-based mental health nursing in Australia: our history and our future.
abstract: This paper will develop a discussion related to evidence-based knowledge for mental health nursing, arguing for a historical component to be included in the comprehensive degree programme that will offer significant insights into mental health nursing knowledge from historical information and constructing implications for contemporary practice. Our understanding of the present is clearer by this looking back and forth and by adding meaning (and what the meanings mean) to what historically preceded. It allows the history of psychiatry to be a much more productive, useful, and a continual source of wisdom for the here and now. This blending of past knowledge with contemporary inquiry can offer depth in mental health nursing practices by forming a context for practice for the beginning nurse practitioner.
authors.affiliation: Deakin University, Geelong, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. philw@deakin.edu.au
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Warelow
authors.forename: Karen-Leigh
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Edward
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000266:history*; D005544:Forecasting; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D008603:Mental Health / Q000266:history*; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000266:history; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000266:history*; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing / Q000266:history; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000266:history*