Posted on April 6, 2008 by sjennings29
  Being burdened and balancing boundaries: a qualitative study of nurses’ experiences caring for patients who self-harm, February 2007, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 14 (1) , 72–78
Abstract: Although nurses encounter self-harm patients in various settings, self-harm has seldom been addressed in psychiatric nursing research. The research question was: ‘What are nurses’ descriptions [...]
Filed under: Forensic Mental Healthcare, Mental Health Nurses, Self Harm, Self Harm Men, depression, medium secure, mental health, nursing, psychiatric, suicide | Tagged: abandoned, fear, inpatients, mental health, mental health settings, nurses, pain, patients, psychiatric, qualitative, repeated self harm, self injury, self mutilation, ward experiences | No Comments »
Posted on April 6, 2008 by sjennings29
 Dangerousness and mental health policy, April 2008, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 15 (3) , 186–194
Abstract: Mental health policy development in the UK has become increasingly dominated by the assumed need to prevent violence and alleviate public concerns about the dangers of the mentally ill living in the community. Risk management [...]
Filed under: Acts - Mental Health, Mental Health Nurses, Psychosis, Violence and Staff, medium secure, mental health, psychiatric | Tagged: act, aggression, community, dangerousness, mental health, mental health act, psychic motivation, risk assessment, safety, violence, ward management | No Comments »
Posted on April 6, 2008 by sjennings29
 The future regulation of health and adult social care in England: A consultation on the framework for the registration of health and adult social care providers, Department of Health, 25th March 2008
This consultation seeks views on: which health and adult social care services should require registration with the Care Quality Commission; and what the [...]
Filed under: Depatment of Health 2008, Equality & Diversity, Learning Disabilities | Tagged: adults social care, commission, health, Learning Disabilities, patients, quality, reforms, social care | No Comments »
Posted on April 6, 2008 by sjennings29
 A review of evidence-based practice, nursing research and reflection: levelling the hierarchy, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Volume 17, Issue 2, Page 214-223, Jan 2008 Full-text click on Title above
Abstract
Aim. This paper examines the evidence-based practice movement, the hierarchy of evidence and the relationship between evidence-based practice and reflective practice.
Background. Evidence-based practice is equated with effective decision [...]
Filed under: Finding the Evidence, Mental Health Nurses, mental health, nursing | Tagged: clinical nursing, clinical performance, decision making, ebp, evidence, evidence-based practice, hierachy, nursing, rct, reflection | No Comments »
