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 . A history of mental health nursing a personal perspective by felicity stockwell retired mental health nurse and lecturer nursing care of the mentally ill was . 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 . Get this from a library a history of mental health nursing peter nolan. 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