Mental Health Nursing

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Tony Ryan has worked as Service Development Manager and Senior
Research Fellow since 2000, initially at the North West Mental Health
Development Centre and now for the Health and Social Care Advisory
Service (HASCAS), as well as working at the University of Manchester.
Tony has also spent 10 years working in the NHS as a mental health nurse
in a variety of roles.
Gail W. Stuart is Dean and a tenured Professor in the College of Nursing,
and a Professor in the College of Medicine at the Medical University
of South Carolina. She is currently President of the American College of
Mental Health Administration and a fellow in the American Academy of
Nursing. She is a prolific writer possibly best known in nursing for her
textbook: Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Nursing, now in its 7th
edition.
Martin Ward is an independent mental health nursing consultant and
director of MW Professional Development Limited. He has 35 years’
experience in mental health care, as a nurse, teacher, researcher, politician
and writer. He was formerly Director of Mental Health for the Royal
College of Nursing, and has a large portfolio of publications and a history
of international teaching and supervision.