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The barriers and facilitators to a career in mental health nursing McKenzie K et al (2021) The barriers and facilitators to a career in mental health nursing. Nursing Times; 117: 2, 18-20.How to use this article in your revalidation activitiesPrint the article and distribute it to all members of your journal club before your meeting. Use the author commentary and discussion points below to help get your discussions started. Participation in journal clubs can be used for revalidation as participatory CPD and/or reflective accounts.Participatory CPD: Record the time you spent reading the article and discussing it in your journal club, describe what you learnt from the article and your group discussions, explain how you will apply it to your practice, and how it links to the NMC Code;Reflective accounts: think about what you learned from your discussions, how you can use your learning to improve your practice, and how this relates to the NMC Code. Add this information to the ‘notes’ section at the end of this document.If you subscribe to Nursing Times, log the evidence in the ‘Other professional development’ or ‘Reflective accounts’ section of your NT Portfolio.For more information on setting up and running a journal club go to ntjournalclubAuthor commentary: A qualitative study of the perceived barriers and facilitators to considering a career in mental health The UK has a significant shortfall of mental health professionals, including nurses; at the same time, an increasing number of people are experiencing mental health difficulties. There are several policy recommendations and government strategic targets that aim to improve mental health service provision; however, these rely on a sufficient mental health workforce. Recruiting and retaining mental health nurses can be difficult, but little is known about the factors that attract staff to this career path. To address this gap, our study explored the facilitators and barriers to individuals considering this career. The primary factor that attracted people to a career in mental health is an interest in people and a desire to help them. Anything that provided a more informed view of the profession – such as voluntary work – was also seen as positive. Many people, however, knew little about the career options, training routes, salary and conditions. The work was also perceived as stressful and there were diversity barriers, such as gender stereotypes and economic factors. To attract people to a career in mental health, we need to develop evidence-based recruitment strategies around these facilitators and barriers. This research suggests there is a need to provide more information about career options and how to access them. Recruitment strategies also need to emphasise the ways in which a career in mental health helps others and directly tackle the perception that it is very stressful, perhaps by outlining explicit stress-management strategies. There is also a need to provide opportunities for relevant, direct experience about what the career might involve.Authors: Karen McKenzie is professor of psychology and clinical psychologist, Matthew Cooper is research assistant, Rachel Martin is research assistant, all at Northumbria University; Kara Murray is mental health nurse, NHS Lothian; Clare Baguley is Psychological Professions Network programme manager, Andra Chiscop is project manager, mental health programme – North West, both at Health Education England.Discussion pointsAre you aware of the recruitment and retention rates for mental health nurses in your area?Can you think of potential recruitment pools in your area, for example psychology and social science graduates?What opportunities exist or could be created for people to gain direct experience of mental health roles in your area, for example voluntary work, shadowing or NHS Ambassadors?How might recruitment materials address concerns about the stressful nature of mental health nursing?How could you promote the recruitment message that a career in mental health helps other people?-63500165735Revalidation evidenceMake a note of how your journal club discussion relates to your own practice and the NMC Code, what you learnt from reading and discussing the article and how you will use this learning to change your practice. If you subscribe to Nursing Times, you can upload this article with your notes into your NT Portfolio as evidence of participatory CPD. You can also use it as the basis for a reflective account.0Revalidation evidenceMake a note of how your journal club discussion relates to your own practice and the NMC Code, what you learnt from reading and discussing the article and how you will use this learning to change your practice. If you subscribe to Nursing Times, you can upload this article with your notes into your NT Portfolio as evidence of participatory CPD. You can also use it as the basis for a reflective account.Your notes ................
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