Rights, Relationships and Recovery: The Report of the National Review of Mental Health Nursing is the first Chief Nursing Officer's review of mental health nursing in Scotland.
The aim of Rights, Relationships and Recovery is to enhance and develop mental health nursing in Scotland and produce continual improvements in the experiences and outcomes of care of service users, their families and carers.
The key messages include:
- Embedding underpinning values based approach to practice at all levels;
- Developing models of practice to maximise therapeutic contact time (priority in adult acute inpatient care);
- Shifting the focus from risk averse and defensive practice towards therapeutic management of individual risk;
- Developing chronic illness management models of practice based on strengths (strength based models);
- Enhancing capacity and capability - through pre-registration programmes, post registration programmes, leadership, supervision and sharing good practice; and
- Developing practice in promotion, prevention and early intervention (anticipatory care).
The review, the 2007 report and action plan are part of a suite of initiatives designed to inform service development and new ways of working. Progress on delivery will only be made through the adoption of a service development, organisational and multi-disciplinary, multi-agency ethos.
Presentations and material from the July 2007 event
For further information contact Alex.McMahon@scotland.gsi.gov.uk