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A paradoxical relationship

01 April 2010

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

FOR MANY years, autonomy has been considered essential in any therapeutic relationship, and it is ignored only when there is a real threat to a person’s wellbeing....

Student life - Give me time to heal

11 November 2008

Nursing Standard

Career Development

Next time you ask someone who has had a life-threatening illness if they are okay, consider your motive. Is it actually you who is seeking comfort from them? Is it...

Student life - Listen to the patient

23 January 2008

Nursing Standard

Careers

Deciding when and how to include or exclude patients in decisions about their care is a challenge that nursing students will encounter from the start of their...

Student life-Application required

05 March 2008

Nursing Standard

Careers

Switching on my computer today, I see that community nursing is on my internet service provider’s list of top ten most promising and attractive jobs. Meanwhile, the...

Better with people

26 September 2007

Nursing Standard

Student focus

When things are going well, dealing with people is easy. Unfortunately, if a person needs to see a nurse, things are not generally going to plan.

Steps toward recovery

07 May 2008

Nursing Standard

Careers

Our guest lecturer looked at us. She had turned pale and I was not sure if she was upset or angry. ‘Please tell me you know about the recovery approach.’

Student life - Safe in our hands

23 January 2007

Nursing Standard

Carrer development

A number of incidents during a psychiatric placement got me thinking about my own safety and that of the female patients on mixed-sex wards.

The ride of your life

13 March 2007

Nursing Standard

Career development

I am going to talk to a new intake of nursing students next week, together with other second-year and third-year students. I suspect it will be like last year – a...

See the client not the addiction

17 April 2007

Nursing Standard

Career development

As a nursing student I had no experience of working with addiction or the complex social issues connected to it before my placement with the community drug team.

See beyond the illness

15 May 2007

Nursing Standard

Career development

Mental illness affects most of us at some time in our lives, directly or indirectly, yet none of us would want to be defined by it. Patients are more than their...