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Reflections on Community Psychiatric Nursing

01 March 2002

Mental Health Practice

Resources

Practitioners with an interest in psychiatric nursing will be familiar with Tony Gillam’s frequent forays into the nursing press in recent years. This enjoyable and...

Exploding the myth

01 November 2002

Mental Health Practice

Focus mental health

A JOURNALIST FROM a prominent daily newspaper recently asked me why mental health nursing was so ‘unappealing’ to recruits. I tried to alter her perception that most...

Working in Mental Health. Practice and Policy in a Changing Environment

10 July 2014

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

INTERESTED IN mental health policy and its impact on your practice? If so this book is for you. If you are not interested in policy but work in practice, this book...

Make a real difference

01 December 2004

Mental Health Practice

Mental health focus

SOME SERVICE users and mental health nurses have been heard to say ‘you would have to be out of your mind to be admitted to an acute mental health ward’....

Developments in research

01 December 2007

Mental Health Practice

Interact

The 13th international Network for Psychiatric Nursing Research (NPNR) conference took place at the end of September in Oxford. Supported by many of its long-term...

A time for reflection

01 March 2005

Mental Health Practice

News

Amsterdam, with its web of water-ways, was a fitting location for the tenth RCN European mental health nursing conference. For much has ebbed and flowed in the world...

In a personal round-up of the highlights from last month’s RCN mental health nursing event, Cris Allen takes a tilt at conference titles that over-egg the pudding. Despite some reservations, though, he found plenty of substance to get his teeth into

01 March 2007

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

‘As soon as I saw it, I wanted to leave Cardiff’, wrote Paul Theroux – admittedly a few years ago. Today, however, he would find that the city is enjoying something...

Recording revolution

01 March 2002

Mental Health Practice

Policy

Mental health nurses across the UK are becoming accustomed to dealing with constant changes to their polices and practice. Sometimes, and perhaps understandably,...

The locked ward: Memoirs of a psychiatric orderly

01 October 2012

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

THIS MEMOIR is written by a former English teacher. He left that role – ‘prised myself free from a job I had grown to loathe’ – to work as a ‘psychiatric orderly’...

Editorial

01 October 2007

Mental Health Practice

Editorial

I would like to take this opportunity to express appreciation for Ian McMillan’s outstanding stewardship of Mental Health Practice over the past ten years on behalf...