Psychiatric nursing is traced in this book from the role of keeper to mental health nurse the language of psychiatry includes lunacy workhouses asylums moral . Psychiatric nursing or mental health nursing is the appointed position of a nurse that specialises in mental health and cares for people of all ages experiencing . Introduction mental health nurses have played a central role in the support of mental health services however this has not been as clearly recognised within the . Get this from a library a history of mental health nursing peter nolan. Book review from chair of the rcns history of nursing society claire chatterton as part of the 100 page turners project claire has reviewed a history of mental