Partnerships in Community Mental Health Nursing and Dementia Care : Practice Perspectives

by Keady, John

• ISBN13: 9780335215829
• ISBN10: 0335215823
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-01
• Publisher: Open University Press

Summary

What is the role of the community mental health nurse (CMHN) in dementia care? What knowledge and frameworks influence the way CMHNs practice in dementia care? How will community mental health nursing be driven forward in the future? This exciting and long-awaited new book is a companion volume to the respected Community Mental Health Nursing and Dementia Care: Practice Perspectives (Open University Press, 2003, edited by Keady, Clarke and Adams). The book enhances the link between theory and practice, providing a rounded and evidence-based account of the complexity, breadth and diversity of community mental health nursing practice in dementia care.The text is divided into three distinct sections: Models of community support and practice values Professional roles and clinical work Moving forward: Changing and developing CMHN practice The book includes coverage of key contemporary issues such as service user involvement, nurse prescribing, younger people with dementia, social exclusion and vulnerability.Partnerships in Community Mental Health Nursing and Dementia Care: Practice Perspectives is key reading for students of dementia care at all levels. It is also of relevance to professionals within the field of community mental health nursing and all other mental health or gerontology related areas.Contributions to this book are drawn from practising CMHNs in dementia care, researchers and commentators who are working at the forefront of their respective fields. Contributors: Trevor Adams, Susan Ashcroft-Simpson, Caroline Baker, Diane Beavis, Catherine Brannan, Dawn Brooker, Shane Burke, Suzanne Cahill, Caroline Cantley, Peter Caswell, Charlotte L. Clarke, Vivienne Davies-Quarrell, Kenneth Day, Kay de Vries, Aine Farrell, Paula Gardiner, Sue Gunstone, Philip Hardman, Steve Iliffe, Dee Jones, Gary and Linda Jones, John Keady, Cordelia Man-yuk Kwok, Jenny Mackenzie, Mike Nolan, Simon O'Donovan, Sean Page, Emma Pritchard, Jan Reed, Jeannie Robinson, David Stanley, Fiona Wilkie, Heather Wilkinson, Kevin G. Wood

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. ix
List of tables	p. xi
Contributors	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xix
Foreword	p. xxi
Introduction	p. 1
Models of community support and practice values	p. 5
Models of community support for people with dementia: Where does the CMHN fit in?	p. 7
How others see us: General practitioner reflections on the role and value of the community mental health nurse in dementia care	p. 25
Beyond respite: Working in collaboration with younger people with dementia and their families in designing support services that 'enhance life'	p. 40
The right route: Service user involvement in care pathways	p. 48
Legal and ethical considerations in the role of the CHMN	p. 61
Ethnic minority communities and the experience of dementia: A review and implications for practice	p. 76
An inclusive and relationship-centred approach to community mental health nursing to people with dementia and their family carers	p. 89
Professional role and clinical work	p. 107
The Alzheimer's Medication Service: Developing an early intervention service in a rural community	p. 109
Nurse prescribing and the CHMN: Assuming new responsibilities in dementia treatment	p. 125
Rural practice, dementia and CHMN activity: An Irish perspective	p. 142
Younger people with dementia: Emerging needs, multi-disciplinarity and the CHMN	p. 152
The CHMN: pathways for assessing vulnerability and abuse in dementia care	p. 169
Supporting people with a learning disability and dementia: The role of the community learning disability nurse	p. 188
The role of the community mental health nurse and the creative arts	p. 206
The community mental health nurse in the care home sector: Issues of assessment and intervention	p. 218
Assertive outreach and the CHMN: A role for the future?	p. 232
'A third way?' Challenging behaviour and the development of CHMN services: Case site examples from Hong Kong, China and Manchester, UK	p. 245
Matters of the heart: The CHMN and palliative care	p. 260
At the margins of society: Social exclusion and the experience of dementia: some reflections and challenges to CHMN practice	p. 272
Moving forward: Changing and developing CHMN practice	p. 293
The community mental health nurse in dementia care: Educational opportunities and future role preparation	p. 295
Out of our history and into our future: Reflections on developing CHMN practice	p. 314
Signposts to the future: Some personal reflections and messages for CHMN practice	p. 327
Index	p. 333
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