The Northern Mental Health Nursing Qualitative Research Forum meets three times a year to connect Mental Health Nurse researcher interested in, and conducting, qualitative research, methodologies and innovations. If you wish to be added to the mailing list , please contact KMWright1@uclan.ac.uk.
The following session was recorded at their first event on Friday 13 May. With thanks to Prof Karen Wright and Dr James Turner for organising the event and the invitation to support with recording the sessions. There was four sessions at the inaugural event. These will be shared over the next few weeks via #mhTV. You can see the future dates via: http://mhna.eventbrite.com.
In this first session, Dr Emma Jones (Senior lecturer, University of Central Lancashire) presented on 'An interpretive hermeneutic phenomenological exploration of patients’ and student mental health nurses’ lived experiences of the time they share together on secure personality disorder units for men'
Unlike more general consideration of caring relationships, the important experience of the time patients and students share together in secure personality disorder units has not been specifically explored before. Patients and student mental health nurses participated in unstructured hermeneutic interviews. When students and patients shared time together they were being-with in their own time and space (bubble), engaging in the mundane every day, sharing activities, common interests and having a laugh, ultimately making connections, which had lasting impact. This was in despite of experiences of thrownness into the world and landscape, or the bearing of diagnostic labels. Students experienced a balance between therapeuticness (leaping-ahead) and professionalism (leaping-in). Reciprocal identities of teacher and learner were obtained within shared experiences of being assessed. The time students and patients shared together was a gift, enabling them to feel that they were ‘just people’ and valued, powerfully impacting on their sense of humanness.
Credits:
NorQual leads: Prof Karen Wright & Dr Jim Turner
Presenter: Dr Emma Jones
Theme music: Tony Gillam
Production & Editing: David Munday
