New challenge on schizophrenia.
The International Council of Nurses has been challenged to bring together nursing research into schizophrenia from around the world and give mental health nurses a body of knowledge from which they could work. The call came last week at an international nursing conference held at the University of Ulster in Coleraine. Nurses heard the plea from Rutgers University Emeritus Professor Hilde- gard Peplau, who decried the failure of nurses to keep pace as other branches of the health professions study the disease.