Opinion
Unsocial shifts and rotas: what’s your breaking point?
Menopause: what reasonable adjustments can I expect at work?
Sepsis guidance update: how do I need to change my practice?
Comment
Unsocial shifts and rotas: what’s your breaking point?
Nurses are flexible but there has to be give and take if the NHS is to boost retention
While technologies can benefit patient safety, we need service user and nurse input
With a surge in technology use in mental health, the pros and cons should be assessed
Our professional inferiority complex: why you’re never ‘just’ a nurse
Safety-critical care is what we do, yet some of us can’t resist the urge to downplay
Hospital car parking: who exactly is making a profit from all those charges and fines?
Using staff as cash cows if they drive to work shows how far goodwill has fallen in the NHS
Cruel curbs on migrant care workers’ lives are at odds with British values
Rules to stop overseas staff bringing family are also risky for the care sector and NHS
Do autism health passports actually help nurses and patients in practice?
Two autistic researchers look at the pros and cons of health passports
Expert advice
Menopause: what reasonable adjustments can I expect at work?
Most nurses will experience menopause and new guidance says employers have a duty to help
Sepsis guidance update: how do I need to change my practice?
Nurse specialist explains the importance of more targeted antibiotic use
Ramadan and how to keep energy levels up in clinical practice during a month of fasting
Tips on the best ways to minimise hunger and thirst, while making time to pray on shift
How to give your best to patients when you’re lacking motivation
Finding ways to boost morale and reaching out to peers can help you get back on track
Redeployment: what to expect if you are asked to work in another clinical area
How and when staff may be moved, and what makes them feel supported in unfamiliar roles
IV paracetamol shortage: what you need to know
Advice on alternative routes of paracetamol administration and other pain-relieving drugs
Editorial
What is the role of a nursing associate in mental health?
Acceptance of the role is driven by the reality of nursing shortages
Looking back to the future of the mental health nursing profession
Neil Brimblecombe reflects on how practitioners’ roles have evolved over the years
2021 RCN Nursing Awards: search for the best innovations in mental health nursing is on
Entries are open for this year’s mental health nursing category of the RCN Nursing Awards. Be in it to win it
Have your say on Mental Health Act reforms
Nurses can contribute to the white paper consultation on replacing the Mental Health Act 1983
COVID-19: will you as a mental health nurse get vaccinated?
You may decide not to have the vaccine, but there are questions you should ask yourself first
Clarion call for more mental health nurses to enter the research leadership programme
Only nine practitioners applied for the first programme in 2019
Your views
NHS pay: would a separate pay spine benefit nurses?
We ask our readers if a split from Agenda for Change is the best approach
Your mental well-being: why should struggling in your job be seen as a sign of weakness?
As nurses, we often put ourselves last, yet still ‘resilience’ is a stick to beat us with
A year on from NHS industrial action, what has changed for nurses?
After the hard-won pay deal, we ask our readers’ panel how they feel about the dispute now
Dreaded form-filling: would standardisation across all settings make your job easier?
Universal patient documentation and its potential to ease your admin burden
Patient confidentiality and sharing patient data in your work WhatsApp group
What safeguards do you need to help you use instant messaging responsibly?
Why does it feel like pay for care home and independent sector nurses is overlooked?
Are non-NHS staff under-estimated by the public and even their nursing colleagues?
Reviews
Recovery in Mental Health Nursing
The blurb on the back cover says this book is for nurses and other professionals in mental health practice, but the contents are clearly directed towards nursing students
Out of the Woods: A journey through depression and anxiety
Brent Williams provides a compelling insight into the experience of depression told mainly through pictures
Book review: Treating Body and Soul – A clinicians’ guide to supporting the physical,...
Little is added to the debate on spirituality and care by the outdated ideas in this book
Edinburgh Fringe review
Lesley Warner reviews plays with mental health themes at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
Book review: Introducing Mental Health: A Practical Guide (Second edition)
Self-employed nursing advisor David Harding-Price reviews Introducing Mental Health: A Practical Guide by Caroline Kinsella and Connor Kinsella
Book review: Proper People: Early Asylum Life in the Words of Those Who Were There (...
Visiting teaching fellow Liam Clarke reviews Proper People: Early Asylum Life in the Worlds of Those Who were There by David Scrimgeour