Mental Health Practice
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Exploring serious mental illness: an interview with nurse-turned-author Nathan Filer
For World Mental Health Day 2019 a former nurse talks about his latest book
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Stand Up To Cancer campaign uses photos of real people to portray ‘raw reality’
Photographs of cancer patients showing their scars appear in project to raise funds
Ambulance crews allowed access to mental health crisis plans
A pilot project will allow crews to see records in a bid to cut emergency admissions
Has intentional rounding turned ward nursing into a tick-box exercise?
Routine rounds are more to do with managing risk than patient-centred care, study suggests
New NHS clinic with mental health nurses will help young gaming addicts
An NHS clinic with specialist mental health nurses will help young people addicted to gaming
Nurse-led monitoring tool could curb overprescribing in care homes
Simple checklist could help avoid overuse of medicines for mental health issues in care homes
For your patients’ sake, get the flu jab, senior official urges health workers
Professor says healthcare staff have a ‘very strong responsibility’ to accept vaccination
Evidence and Practice
An evaluation of nurse-led mental health training for benefits staff
Background Meaningful employment can promote emotional and mental health, yet there are...
Peer-to-peer mentoring for and by at-risk young people
Background Mentoring is recognised as an important modality in helping others to manage...
Validity of a two-question tool in detecting antenatal depression in Malawi
Establishing the validity of a two-question tool based on the Whooley questions
Mental health service needs and experiences of asylum-seeking children in the UK
A literature review of the needs and experiences of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
Simulated learning environments involving coroner’s court attendance in mental health
SLEs provide students with an opportunity to experience complex practice elements
Well-being, physical and mental health: Helping service users cope with schizophrenia
Part 3 of our series explores the causes of schizophrenia and how it can lead to self-neglect
Features
Exploring serious mental illness: an interview with nurse-turned-author Nathan Filer
For World Mental Health Day 2019 a former nurse talks about his latest book
Nurses open up about their mental health problems
Mental ill health is now the top reason for NHS sickness absence – but there is good news
Mature students are vital to mental health nursing – but numbers are dropping
Financial pressures put older potential candidates off mental health nursing as a career
Team offers intensive support to enable service-users to live independently
Rehabilitation by award-winning team enables people with mental illness to live at home
How one nurse helped break the taboo of talking about sex in mental healthcare settings
Rachel Luby impresses RCNi Nurse Awards judges with her determination and approach
The mental health conference that felt more like a festival
Student-led conference on mental health nursing incorporated yoga, dance and social media
Opinion
Community mental health framework aims to address inequalities in services
NHS England's framework ties in with plans to develop better integration of services
Nurse bodycam use: a benefit or a waste of resources?
Two leading nurses discuss whether body camera use in healthcare could be beneficial
We must all help to transform the well-being culture in the NHS
Well-being guardians may lead the way, but we all have our part to play
Students
Mental health and adult nursing, plus the pace of emergency care – this role has it all
A dual-registration newly qualified nurse reflects on what she has learned in her first year
On the front line with a paramedic
A day spent shadowing a paramedic showed the complex range of skills this role requires, and the emotional side of the work
What to do when words fail
Communication problems are not uncommon when people with complex needs are admitted to hospital, and one nursing student is creating a toolkit that will include tips from specialists and signposting to additional support
Careers
Mental health and dementia lead
Gill Drummond reflects on her career and what makes a good mental health nurse
Senior staff nurse on a general psychiatric, female-only ward
I have an instinctive desire to provide care and support to people, says Risq Animasaun
Advanced nurse practitioner in personality disorder
Jodie Alder explains why she chose to work in secure services for men