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What’s happened to the mental health nursing workforce?
RCN warning for one year old mental health workforce plan, suggesting initial targets will...
Newsroom
What’s happened to the mental health nursing workforce?
RCN warning for one year old mental health workforce plan, suggesting initial targets will...
How fitness to practise fears raise suicide risk for troubled nurses
Campaign group calls for better support for nurses reported to regulator
Personality disorders: how the new consensus statement seeks to improve care and
Consensus statement looks to overturn stigma of personality disorders
Gosport hospital deaths review found nurses’ warnings on opioids went unheeded
Review into hundreds of untimely deaths said night duty nurses were stifled when they spoke...
Expert panel to advise government on cannabis for medical use
Home secretary says government plans to reschedule banned drug if review identifies ‘...
FtP is about patient safety, not private behaviour, RCN tells regulator
Some outcomes suggest ‘moral policing’, with nurses being held to a different standard,...
Evidence and Practice
Improving the perceived quality of life of US military veterans with serious mental...
As the economics of providing healthcare are constantly explored, new models of care must be...
Functions of non-suicidal self-injury in prisoners with mental health diagnoses
Aim To gain accounts of the functions of self-harm in a sample of adult male prisoners with...
Retaining and valuing newly qualified nursing staff: evaluation of a peer support group
This article describes a service evaluation of the introduction of a successful local...
Making the link between staff and service-user health
This article describes the introduction of a staff health programme designed to create a...
Providing streamlined multiagency care for high-intensity users of mental health and...
Mental health service users often use emergency services and emergency departments (EDs) at...
Solution-oriented learning to build resilience in mental health nursing students and...
Increasing concerns about nursing students’ mental health and the retention crisis facing...
Features
How experts by experience are shaping mental health services
Volunteers influencing change at a large mental health trust have been well received by staff
RCN Mental Health Forum campaigns for adequate therapeutic time
The RCN's mental health forum, the college's largest, is intending to fight to get the...
RCN chair: Adamant nurses must use their voice
RCN chair Maria Trewern is full of hope for the profession – and wants to give members more...
Hand hygiene needn’t mean sore skin
A new guide from the RCN shows how to combine hand hygiene with skin care
Mental health nursing: RCN lead Catherine Gamble on why she feels optimistic
The RCN mental health professional lead reflects on her first six months in the job
Opinion
Reaching a crisis point: how carers having your back can matter most
Marsha McAdam describes how appropriate support helped her to cope in a crisis
'When I speak about my fears I become less fearful of them'...
Nursing student Matty Laycock reveals the techniques he uses to help him to deal with his OCD
Me and my stammer – and how it's affected my mental health...
Gareth Cowlin wants to help other people whose stammer has interfered with their mental well...
Students
On the front line with a paramedic
A day spent shadowing a paramedic showed the complex range of skills this role requires, and...
What to do when words fail
Communication problems are not uncommon when people with complex needs are admitted to...
Going outside your comfort zone can help connect with patients
By learning more about football, mental health nursing student Felicity Allman was able to...
Careers
'Take the risks to better your career prospects'...
Senior lecturer Nicola Evans, on how taking all opportunities can provide the best outcomes...
60 seconds with military mental health nurse Diane Palmer
Always aim high, and be an inspirational leader who students and staff can trust and learn...
60 seconds with lead nurse for specialist mental health services Angela Shorter
Working in mental health gives you a huge amount of satisfaction, and the right opportunity...