THE HUMAN-SCIENCE BASIS OF PSYCHIATRIC NURSING - THEORY AND PRACTICE

Psychiatric nurses in the United Kingdom (UK) have begun to reattend t o people with 'serious and enduring mental illness'. At the same time research in the LISA and UK has refocused much of its attention on neu roscientific theories and models of serious mental illness. Psychiatri c nurses ave being encouraged to consider the value Of biomedical expl anations of serious illness, such as schizophrenia, ann to accommodate these theories and models in the practice of nursing. This paper will examine the challenge of biomedical approach for the continued develo pment of psychiatric nursing needs to develop further its own 'proper focus', if it is to survive as a key player in the health care field o f the 21st century.