Evidence and Practice

Clinical

Exploring the mental health challenges and support needs of nursing students

Exploring the mental health challenges and support needs of nursing students

Study investigating students’ mental health and well-being at a university in England

Reviewing the evidence on pharmacological interventions for people with borderline personality disorder

Reviewing pharmacological interventions for people with borderline personality disorder

Commentary on a Cochrane review of pharmacological interventions for people with BPD

Role of forgiveness in supporting spiritual well-being among patients and nurses

Role of forgiveness in supporting spiritual well-being among patients and nurses

Addressing unresolved feelings about hurtful situations could help nurses avoid burnout

Benefits and challenges of implementing the professional nurse advocate programme: a service evaluation

Benefits and challenges of implementing the professional nurse advocate programme

Service evaluation of the PNA programme at a mental health and learning disability NHS trust

Music interventions for refugees' mental health

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Using practice development to recruit and retain forensic mental health nurses: a preceptorship support project

Using practice development to recruit and retain forensic mental health nurses

A preceptorship project used practice development to engage with students and newly registered nurses

CPD articles

Assessing the physical health of service users with severe mental illness

Assessing the physical health of service users with severe mental illness

How mental health nurses can address inequalities to improve service users’ physical health

Health behaviour change

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Supporting clients to make positive changes in health behaviours using the transtheoretical model and motivational interviewing

Changing health behaviours with the transtheoretical model and motivational interviewing

How nurses can use these approaches to support clients to make positive changes in health behaviour

Monitoring the use of antidepressants: the role of mental health nurses

Monitoring the use of antidepressants: the role of mental health nurses

An update on principles of practice for antidepressants amid a changing discourse on risks and benefits

Diagnostic overshadowing

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Preventing diagnostic overshadowing to improve the physical health of people with severe mental illness

Preventing diagnostic overshadowing in people with severe mental illness

How nurses can improve physical health outcomes for this patient group

Practice question

A driver leans out of the window of his car and puts a hand on his brow in confusion. Unsafe driving is an area of risk for accidental self-harm or harm to others.

What biopsychosocial risks should mental health professionals consider in dementia care?

Proactive identification of risk enables a more holistic approach and promotes autonomy

Postpartum psychosis: a young woman holding a baby in her arms sits next to a window looking outside

Why is metabolic risk monitoring important in women with postpartum psychosis?

Postpartum psychosis poses challenges regarding medicine side effects and long-term health

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What is the therapeutic relationship in mental health practice?

A therapeutic relationship between nurse and service user is vital for good outcomes

Mental illness: why is cardiometabolic risk monitoring important?

Tips for nurses on monitoring cardiometabolic risk in people taking antipsychotic medications

Severe mental illness: why is physical health monitoring so vital?

Physical health monitoring helps nurses identify key risk factors in service users

The relevance of practitioners providing trauma-informed care for rough sleepers

The symptoms of PTSD for rough sleepers and adopting a trauma-informed approach to care

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