mental health

Exploring women’s experiences of an inpatient mental health rehabilitation service

Exploring women’s experiences of an inpatient mental health rehabilitation service

Update your knowledge of the importance of gender-sensitive and trauma-informed care

An illustration depicting a mental health crisis: images include a stressed face, with others depicting a low battery depicting burnout and a collapsed figure

How can the crisis in mental health nursing be turned around?

Caseloads, lack of support and a negative work culture all raise safety and burnout fears

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A young boy sitting on a swing in a children’s play area in a park

Why the shared experiences of 6,000 adults are a source of inspiration

Truth Project inspires despite inaction on recommendations of inquiry into child sexual abuse

experiences of self-recovery among adults with bipolar disorder: a narrative review

Experiences of self-recovery among adults with bipolar disorder: a narrative review

Understanding the psychosocial factors that influence recovery can guide interventions

Obsessive compulsive disorder: overview of the condition and its nursing management

Obsessive compulsive disorder: overview of the condition and its nursing management

Details of OCD treatments including cognitive behavioural therapy and pharmacological options

A sad-looking young man sits on a park bench alone smoking a cigarette

Physical health and well-being: how you can help service users

People living with severe mental illness often experience poor physical health

Improving suicide risk screening in the emergency department

Improving suicide risk screening in the emergency department

Learn about the use of the Columbia-Suicide Severity Risk Scale

Delirium superimposed on dementia: mental health nurses’ experiences of providing care

Delirium superimposed on dementia: mental health nurses’ experiences of providing care

Knowing patients cannot be reduced to a numerical tool and an integrated approach is needed

Pensive nurse using her phone. Inset, mugshot of serial killer nurse, Lucy Letby, whose crimes are cited as reasons why nurses seek mental health helpline’s support

Tarred with the same brush? Nurses pay with their mental health for Lucy Letby’s crimes

Surge in calls to helpline partly blamed on post-Letby climate of suspicion

Exploring the role of social media use in eating disorders in adolescents: a scoping review

Exploring the role of social media in eating disorders in adolescents: a scoping review

Social media use in this age group has been shown to have both protective and adverse effects

Exploring nurses’ experiences of caring for people who inject drugs with a physical health condition: an integrative literature review

Nurses’ experiences caring for people who inject drugs with a physical health condition

Literature review identified lack of knowledge, emotional challenge, stigmatisation, fear...

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An illustration showing a person’s movements being picked up by a motion sensor

While technologies can benefit patient safety, we need service user and nurse input

With a surge in technology use in mental health, the pros and cons should be assessed

Preventing suicide by jumping in public locations: a systematic review of interventions

Interventions to restrict access to means of suicide are correlated with reduced suicide...

Meeting patients’ mental health needs in critical care: a guide to close the skills gap

Newly registered nurses have produced a guide that ICU – and all acute teams – can use

Martha’s rule roll-out: how nurses will be involved

New rule gives patients and families access to urgent second opinion if concerned about care

‘Bullying and intimidating’ nurse suspended from register

Mental health nurse Declan Carroll’s behaviour led to NMC fitness to practise panel verdict

I came close to death – now I’m using my experience to improve mental healthcare

Mental health nurse Matty Caine on his pioneering service First Person Project

Reducing the burden on ambulance services and EDs: a mental health initiative

How mental health professionals worked with 999 call centre clinical support in Wales

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