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Joint working: myth or reality?

01 November 2002

Mental Health Practice

Multidisciplinary care

Much has been written about multidisciplinary working in mental health but what is the reality of such practices? Do staff really work together cohesively or do they...

Suspended in time

18 June 1997

Nursing Standard

Opinion

YOU WOULD THINK that nurses returning to work after a suspension, having been completely exonerated, could pick up where they left off.

I hate Martin Platt

16 July 1997

Nursing Standard

Opinion

For years I believed that patients’ views on nursing issues were informed by documentaries such asWorld in Action or Panorama. But recently a relative shattered that...

Jargon man

11 February 1998

Nursing Standard

Opinion

I HAVE LONG held the belief that when the UKCC was created in the early 1980s, ‘Jargon Man’ was also born. ‘Jargon Mem’ started life quietly with the introduction of...

Size matters

15 July 1998

Nursing Standard

Opinion

DURING THE admission procedure for people requiring psychiatric hospital care, nursing staff concentrate on the client’s current mental health problems. At the same...

Return to Ecstasy

06 August 1997

Nursing Standard

Feature

ECSTASY CONTINUES to be a life threatening problem for young people, with the Department of Health estimating that 50 people might have died suite the mid-1980s when...

Witnessing violence to staff: a study of nurses’ experiences

18 December 1996

Nursing Standard

Mental health nursing

The healthcare environment has become a more violent place to work. Staff are increasingly prone to physical and verbal attack by patients (Turnbull 1993) and the...

Grim death

06 November 1996

Nursing Standard

Opinion

DURING THE course of any nursing career there can be few more traumatic moments than attending a coroner’s court. Nurses who have done so say it has been the worst...

Media interests

01 April 1998

Nursing Standard

Opinion

With the exception of the professional nursing journals, views on the healthcare professions are mainly expressed through the eyes of doctors. If we allow this to...

Who's off duty?

11 December 1996

Nursing Standard

Opinion

THE MAIN topic of conversation among nursing staff is not, I can assure you, the waiting lists or how tire ward is to be decorated over Christmas - or indeed tire...