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Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing and Health Care Reform: Learning to See the Playing Field

2009; Elsevier BV; Volume: 23; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.apnu.2009.04.008

1532-8228

Kathleen R. Delaney,

Primary Care and Health Outcomes

Nearing his retirement, the sporting world became fascinated with the talents of Wayne Gretzky, the great National Hockey League player. His now famous quote, “A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be,” raised several questions. Was Gretzky's ability to “see” the puck an innate skill or can one develop a sense of the field, learning to move toward where the energy was taking the game? The quote invites many analogies to life outside the ice, including consideration of how well one is reading the movement of his or her professional playing field. In this time of tremendous change in health care, it is certainly a question for psychiatric mental health (PMH) nursing. How well does specialty move with the direction of health care reform? How might the specialty sharpen its sense of the health care playing field?