Jane Obi-Udeaja, Kate Crosby and Garry Ryan
Middlesex University, UK
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Nurs Care
Involving service users in the education of mental health practitioners is seen as important. It provides the opportunity for developing greater awareness and understanding through the unique insights of people�s lived experience of mental health conditions and of their contact with mental health services. There is a growing understanding of the contribution that makes to the improvement of services and in developing the mental health practitioners fuels the increase in its practice. In particular, the pre-registration training of mental health professionals includes social workers, nurses and psychologists. This presentation describes the involvement of service user trainers in the development and delivery of a short training course on physical restraint for mental health practitioners. It considers the impact of including service users who themselves have experience of being restrained in acute mental health settings from the perspectives of course participants, tutors and the service user trainers themselves. A key element of this involvement is the creation of a forum where service users� contributions are intently listened to and valued by practitioners. Both parties put heads together to critically analyze the good and bad experiences of restraint practices and, the lessons learnt are powerful as evidenced in course participants� feedback: I really gained a fresh perspective and will take this experience forward in my future practice and; service user involvement is very relevant and thought provoking-a good way to see how our work affects/impacts patients. In sharing this experience, it is hoped that this practice is adopted and sustained across the setting.
Email: j.obi-udeaja@mdx.ac.uk
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