Mental Health Practice
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People with dementia face multiple emergency admissions every year
Alzheimer’s Society says annual emergency admissions rise in England cost NHS £280 million
Meet the twin sisters with identical nursing careers
Rali and Petya Marinova qualified in the same speciality and work together on the same ward
RCN congress 2020: your chance to vote on urgent nursing issues
Topics include unpredictable shift patterns, corridor care and assisted dying
BME nurses – the NHS staff most likely to face discrimination at work
NHS WRES report quantifies the harassment, abuse and discrimination BME staff experience
Coronavirus: nurse in self-isolation says process is ‘not being dealt with effectively’
Anyone asked to go into self-isolation should stay at home for 14 days, says PHE
UK burns specialist matron flies to New Zealand to care for volcanic eruption patients
Lucy Hall responded to appeal for international help to relieve over-stretched nurses
Evidence and Practice
Three issues for mental health nurse educators preparing new preregistration programmes
Areas nurse educators need to address when developing preregistration nursing programmes
Sensory modulation in mental health practice
Why you should read this article • To understand how sensory modulation can assist service...
Timely diagnosis and disclosure of dementia for patients and their families
Mental health nurses have an important role in providing expertise to GPs
Veterans’ experiences of alcohol use of UK military personnel
On leaving active service, veterans should be provided with greater mental health support
Use of a mnemonic to support suicide intervention training for nursing students
Update your knowledge of the nurse’s role in suicide assessment and management
Effects of a mindfulness-based stress reduction group programme on family carers
Study identified that mindfulness skills can be used in various ways in family carers’ lives
Features
Cervical cancer screening resources to address mental health disparities
Support for women service users with severe mental illness to access screening
Adding personal health budgets to your mental health nursing skill set
The budgets empower patients to self-manage care and regain control of their lives
Award winners champion sexual health and rehabilitation of mental health service users
As entries open for the RCNi Nurse Awards 2020, past winners reflect on their career-changing experiences
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
Opinion
Improving the health and well-being of unpaid carers – initiatives with impact
How Commitment to Carers award nominees have shared their work and inspired others
Nursing unity can help bridge mental health gap
Nurses can be a powerful voice in 2020 advocating for better care outcomes
Students
Patient confidentiality: how a complicated case created an ethical and legal dilemma
A service user’s chlamydia diagnosis taught me lessons about disclosure and breach of trust
Nurse’s podcasts tell true story of life on mental health wards
Podcasts aim to dispel myths about mental illness, remove stigma and give patients a voice
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
Careers
Why forensic mental health nursing is such a rewarding career
A challenging role where compassion and advocacy go hand in hand with public protection
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