Working as a mental health nurse in ECT provides opportunities to see people with the most profound of depressions improve and return to enjoying life, work and family.
It is also exciting to be part of a speciality within mental health services where nurses lead interprofessional teams in providing high-quality care, and to proudly develop careers in a service that even among our mental health colleagues is poorly understood. Nurses working in ECT can help to educate the public and other health and social care professionals, and ensure that ECT remains an important treatment option within modern mental health services.
To achieve this it is important to provide expert knowledge, information and advice. One way of doing this is through the work of the National Association for Lead Nurses in ECT (NALNECT).