title: Care, compassion and courage: the museum of mental health nursing - an ethnographic archaeology.
abstract: 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). The paper discusses five themes about the formation of collective identity and concludes that mental health nurses are theoretically well positioned to develop and rethink social recovery models, ideas about fragmented selves and multiple histories that the postmodern age now curates.
authors: University of Wolverhampton, Walsall Campus, Walsall, West Midlands, UK.
authors: D-D
authors: DD
authors: Holyoake
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D001106:Archaeology; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing
keywords: ethnography; history; mental health nursing; nursing culture; representation