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Interpersonal nursing for mental health

01 April 2001

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

The authors ask ‘why write another mental health nursing text book?’ and then go on to suggest how this one is different. They note that many mental health nursing...

Women in mind

01 September 2005

Mental Health Practice

Women's health

Women’s issues were at the top of the agenda when members of the RCN Women’s Mental Health Group (WMHG) met health minister Rosie Winterton last July at the...

Dignity, humanity and equality: Principle of Nursing Practice A

16 March 2011

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This is the second article in a nine-part series describing the Principles of Nursing Practice developed by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in collaboration with...

Practice development in mental health nursing

01 December 1998

Mental Health Practice

Feature

This paper, the first in a series of three, focuses on practice development in psychiatric and mental health nursing. New practice development roles are constantly...

Practice development in mental health nursing: part two

01 February 1999

Mental Health Practice

Feature

This article follows Cutcliffe et al’s article (MHP, 2, 5, 27-31), which outlined some general issues of practice development and examined its evolution in the...

Developing a practice framework for acute admission psychiatric care: part one

01 November 1999

Mental Health Practice

Acute care

The nature of acute admission psychiatry has changed significantly over the last 30 years. For example, Thomas analysed 2,000 patients who were admitted to...

Views of relatives, carers and staff on end of life care pathways

05 March 2010

Emergency Nurse

Feature

More people die in hospital than at home (Department of Health (DH) 2008). Yet, many people do not want to die in hospital, which can be an inappropriate environment...