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Special Recognition: An award for a mental health champion
Mark Field has been honoured with the RCNi Nurse Awards’ first-ever Special Recognition Award
Newsroom
Training standards on use of restraint could become mandatory for NHS in England
The Restraint Reduction Network has been commissioned to create the evidence-based standards
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
Matt Hancock: 'determined to return commitment put in by staff'...
New health and social care secretary commits to championing undervalued staff
Investment vital to ensure NHS plans a reality for mental health workforce
Targeted recruitment drive needed to fill 7,600 mental health nursing vacancies, says RCN’s...
Evidence and Practice
Implementing positive behavioural support in a forensic psychiatric intensive care unit...
Positive behavioural support (PBS) is a non-aversive, preventive approach to behavioural...
Male adolescent suicidality: a literature review
In the UK, suicide rates in adolescent males continue to rank consistently and significantly...
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...
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...
Features
Special Recognition: An award for a mental health champion
Mark Field has been honoured with the RCNi Nurse Awards’ first-ever Special Recognition Award
Integrated training could be the key to unlocking parity of esteem
A round-table discussion shed light on the importance of training in improving outcomes
Mental health unit rewarded for turnaround efforts
Brookside Adolescent Inpatient Unit's busy 18 months topped off with RCNi Nurse Awards...
My experience as a mental health service user is invaluable to my role
Naz Islam is part of our Commitment to Carers winning team in the RCNi Nurse Awards 2018
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...
Opinion
We can de-stigmatise mental ill health if we’re willing to learn from the past
History has so much to tell us about modern medical and social attitudes to mental health
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
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...