Introducing a mental health training programme for practice nurses

Nessie Shia, Sarah Marriott

NHS Direct: Improving the service available to callers with mental health problems

Janet Lees, David Scarrott, Steve Hemingway

Plain Words for Nurses: Writing and Communicating Effectively

Eileen MacCallum

Coping with Bereavement

John Cutcliffe

Eating Disorders and Cultures in Transition

Anne Aiyebusi

Overcoming Depression: A Five Areas Approach

Catherine Gamble

Understanding and working with the spectrum of autism

Laurence Baldwin

Diary

Review of the month

Ben Davidson

End of an era?

David Brandon, Annie Therese Altschul, Phil Barker

Tradition and contemporary mental health nursing: Report from the Congress of Nordic Psychiatric Nursing Associations

Martin Ward

Taking on nurse prescribing powers could lead mental health nurses away from the core concepts that underpin nursing, argue John Cutcliffe and Peter Campbell

John Cutcliffe, Peter Campbell

A shaming problem

Eileen MacCallum

News feature

Report summary

People

Letter

Jonathon E Lynch

Letter

Jess Lievesley

Letter

Simon Shaw

Letter

Joanna Bennett

The enigma of violence: Developing a therapeutic response

Rick Tucker

Nurse consultants:

Ian McMillan

Better handling of refugees needed

News

Security policies found to vary widely between units

Inpatient care blighted by staff shortages

Ian McMillan

Five-year plan launched in prisons

News

News in brief

Editorial

Ian Mcmillan