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Improving the efficiency of referral and assessment pathways

23 December 2011

Mental Health Practice

Feature

Staff in a multiprofessional community mental health team were trained to screen new referrals using a brief telephone interview. Client flows for the six months...

Mental health nursing and social control

01 May 1998

Mental Health Practice

Feature

The mental health industry' is in chaos. Practitioners and managers are drowning in a deluge of policy initiatives, legislation, and recommendations from reports and...

Intensive home treatment team: medication protocol and plan

01 June 1998

Mental Health Practice

Feature

Following the publication of the Department of Health report on nurse prescribing (DoH 1989) recommendations began to be implemented. The existing legislation that...

Community care for the severely mentally ill: a review

06 November 1996

Nursing Standard

Mental health nursing

In the UK. large and often isolated mental hospitals have been the setting for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered for over 150 years. However, in the...

Family therapy: exploring the role of the CPN

06 March 1996

Nursing Standard

Mental health

Family therapy is often listed as one of a range of areas within which the community psychiatric nurse (CPN) might specialise. For example, Simmons and Brooker...

Can a mental health nurse be a nurse practitioner?

02 October 1996

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This paper is part of a larger study examining the role of the nurse practitioner and its potential utility in mental health nursing. Two methods were employed for...

Books, meaning and hope

09 October 2014

Mental Health Practice

Art & Science

A reading group was set up to address a lack of collaborative social activities for people with mental health problems. The group is fully co-produced by service...

Primary care-led mental health services: a practical response

01 May 1998

Mental Health Practice

Clinical

Administration and medical logic suggest that the cardinal requirement for improving mental health services is not a large expansion of psychiatric agencies, but...

Clinical supervision in a remote island setting

01 July 2009

Mental Health Practice

Feature

This article describes how a mental health team in a remote rural landscape benefited from restructuring its clinical supervision team. Using the Ten Essential...

Evaluation of nursing students’ work experience through the use of reflective journals

12 March 2014

Mental Health Practice

Art & Science

Aims The aim of this study was to explore the effects of a pilot clinical community mental health placement on general nursing students’ lived experiences throughout...