Clinical
Our clinical nursing articles aim to inform and educate nurse practitioners and students. This is achieved through the publication of peer-reviewed, evidence-based, relevant and topical articles.
Evaluation of nursing students’ work experience through the use of reflective journals
Aims The aim of this study was to explore the effects of a pilot clinical community mental...
12 Mar 2014
Contraception needs of women attending drug and alcohol treatment centres
Although women using drug and alcohol services are at higher risk of unplanned pregnancies...
12 Mar 2014
Animal hoarding: devastating, complex, and everyone’s concern
Little is understood about animal hoarding, but it is believed to occur in most communities...
12 Mar 2014
The use of music and singing to help manage anxiety in older adults
The number of older adults in the UK is increasing, and they are vulnerable to long-term...
13 Feb 2014
Evaluation of a study day on child and adolescent mental health services
Child and adolescent mental health is a specialty that can fall between children’s and...
13 Feb 2014
Promoting mental health and wellbeing in practice
Literature on mental health promotion and wellbeing stresses the importance of inherent...
13 Feb 2014
Staff attitudes towards people with borderline personality disorder
Despite significant changes to policy, legislation and treatment pathways for people with...
13 Feb 2014
Improving patient safety and quality of care for patients receiving electroconvulsive...
A variety of psychiatric disorders have been treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)...
13 Feb 2014
Compulsive hoarding syndrome: engaging patients in treatment
The safety and quality of life of an individual, their family members and others can be...
01 Dec 2013
Diagnostic overshadowing: a potential barrier to physical health care for mental health...
Diagnostic overshadowing occurs when symptoms of physical illness are attributed to the...
01 Dec 2013
Community psychiatric nurses’ experiences of caring for clients with borderline...
Aim To explore the experience of psychiatric nurses who work in the community caring for...
01 Dec 2013
Computer-assisted reminiscence therapy: developing practice
Reminiscence therapy is a positive pastime for people with dementia and there is evidence to...
01 Dec 2013
Serious games: an intervention in low-secure settings
Engaging service users in treatment is part of the supportive and therapeutic care provided...
01 Nov 2013
Suicide in recently released prisoners: a systematic review
Background Research on the mortality of released prisoners is sparse and what research has...
01 Nov 2013
A substance use monitoring tool for people with serious mental health problems
An assertive outreach team has developed and introduced a monitoring tool to improve...
01 Nov 2013
Safeguarding in prisons
Social care safeguarding processes can be introduced in prisons to protect vulnerable...
01 Nov 2013
Staff attitudes towards inpatients with borderline personality disorder
This article discusses the negative attitudes of some nursing staff towards inpatients...
01 Nov 2013
Implementing clinical supervision in mental health practice
In the UK, the need for suitably trained clinical supervisors to ensure the effective...
01 Oct 2013