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Understanding and working with bereavement

01 October 2002

Mental Health Practice

CPD

Although we all experience bereavement at some point in our lives, the experience of bereavement is unique to everyone. To achieve a natural resolution, a person...

Suicidal mental health inpatients: principal approaches to care

01 June 2002

Mental Health Practice

CPD

There are two principal approaches to providing care for suicidal mental health inpatients, these are: special, close or non-routine observation and...

Generic nurses: the nemesis of psychiatric/mental health nursing?

01 June 2000

Mental Health Practice

Generic nursing

After over 100 years of practice, psychiatric/mental health (P/MH) nurses in the UK find themselves in a position of uncertainty. According to Duffy and Lee (1998),...

Generic nurses: the nemesis of psychiatric/mental health nursing? Part two

01 July 2000

Mental Health Practice

Generic nursing

The human component of psychiatric/mental health nursing Hill and Michael (1996) used a phenomen - ological approach to uncover the existence of psychiatric/mental...

In response to an article in MHP on nurses’ holding powers, John Cutcliffe, Hugh McKenna and Sue Smit join the debate on how Section 5(4) should be used

01 April 2000

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

The ‘thorny’ issue of nurses’ holding power was raised in the February issue of MHP by Ashmore and Carver (3, 5, 12-18). While we agree that such issues need to be...