Laying foundations: attitudes to mental health nurse education
This report focuses on how to attract more people, from a broad range of backgrounds, to apply to study mental health nursing.
In recent years, demand from prospective students to study mental health nursing has been unlikely to be sufficient to support a sustainable supply of qualified nurses into NHS-funded services.
Over the past 12 months, the Mental Health Network has worked closely with the Nuffield Trust and NHS Employers to commission a comprehensive research project designed to answer the question of how we attract more people to become mental health nurses.
Using intelligence gathered via a variety of methods including focus groups, literature reviews, interviews and analysis of university data, this report, published by the Nuffield Trust, focuses on how to attract more people, from a broad range of backgrounds, to apply to study mental health nursing.
