Practice development in mental health nursing: part two

Abstract

In the second of this three-part series, Ann Jackson and four colleagues from the RCN Institute, Oxford, discuss the groundwork and structured approach necessary for a practice development programme to succeed This article follows Cutcliffe et al’s article (MHP, 2, 5, 27-31), which outlined some general issues of practice development and examined its evolution in the mental health field. The authors highlighted the distinctions and similarities between professional development, educative methods of generating change and action research methodologies.