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Mental healthcare training needs of oncology nurses in Ireland

08 February 2017

Cancer Nursing Practice

Evidence & practice

Aim To investigate the self-reported mental healthcare training needs of oncology nurses in Ireland. Method An exploratory, quantitative descriptive study was...

Drug dogs

01 July 2008

Mental Health Practice

Letter

Dear Editor, An article in May’s MHP (Smith 11, 8, 12-15 2008) on the use of drug dogs on inpatient wards contained a reference to my article, ‘Who let the dogs in?’...

Physical care skills: a training needs analysis of inpatient and community mental health nurses

01 December 2005

Mental Health Practice

General

The physical health of people with severe mental illness (SMI) is a current concern in mental health care. Phelan et al (2001) suggest that research in many...

Diagnostic overshadowing: a potential barrier to physical health care for mental health service users

01 December 2013

Mental Health Practice

Art & Science

Diagnostic overshadowing occurs when symptoms of physical illness are attributed to the service user’s mental illness. This increases the risks of treatment delay...

Assessing nurses’ propositional knowledge of physical health

01 October 2010

Mental Health Practice

Feature

Participants in a training day on the phycial health of people with severe mental illness completed a quiz to assess their knowledge of basic physical health issues...

Review of my book contained misleading case example

26 October 2010

Nursing Standard

Letter

I found Tim Grace’s review of my book, Physical Health and Well Being in Mental Health Nursing – Clinical Skills for Practice, inaccurate (reviews October 13). The...

Caring for someone with cancer and severe mental illness

22 February 2021

Cancer Nursing Practice

evidence and practice

People with severe mental illness often have suboptimal physical health and experience a wide range of comorbidities, including cancer, that affect health outcomes....

Enhancing physical health monitoring in people with severe mental illness: the development of a health passport

30 June 2020

Mental Health Practice

Policy

People with severe mental illness (SMI) experience significant health inequalities, and their physical health needs are often not addressed. This article describes...

04 March 2021 / Vol 24 issue 2

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