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‘In the middle’: A qualitative study of talk about mental health nursing roles and work

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International Journal of Mental Health Nursing

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DOI (Published version): 10.1111/inm.12676

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Professional identities are important in defining workers’ roles, and are concerned with attributes relating to those roles and how they are performed. Evidence shows mental health nurses undertake many different roles as part of their work. Yet the roles of mental health nurses are insufficiently u...

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Published in: International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
ISSN: 1445-8330 1447-0349
Published: Wiley
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