This paper illustrates one of the few services developed in an inner London borough in response to the growing dependency on opioids. It shows what can be achieved with services developed from an addictions background and how valuable this can be for patients. It also illustrates, through case studies, what can be achieved with experienced non-medical prescribers delivering the service in primary care, often treating patients with developed patterns of dependency on opioids and how this can be treated using substitute medication.
{"title":"Shared care development areas: opioid prescribing","authors":"Jeff Fernandez","doi":"10.12968/bjmh.2021.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2021.0044","url":null,"abstract":"This paper illustrates one of the few services developed in an inner London borough in response to the growing dependency on opioids. It shows what can be achieved with services developed from an addictions background and how valuable this can be for patients. It also illustrates, through case studies, what can be achieved with experienced non-medical prescribers delivering the service in primary care, often treating patients with developed patterns of dependency on opioids and how this can be treated using substitute medication.","PeriodicalId":149493,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Mental Health Nursing","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125908432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah Jane Palmer discusses her mental health experiences and what she thinks could be done to improve the patient pathway to recovery
莎拉·简·帕尔默讨论了她的心理健康经历，以及她认为可以做些什么来改善病人的康复之路
{"title":"My mental health journey from a nurse perspective","authors":"S. Palmer","doi":"10.12968/bjmh.2021.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2021.0035","url":null,"abstract":"Sarah Jane Palmer discusses her mental health experiences and what she thinks could be done to improve the patient pathway to recovery","PeriodicalId":149493,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Mental Health Nursing","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130513081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Self-harm is a growing issue and remains a complex phenomenon in contemporary society. Understanding this behaviour may present challenges to staff providing care and support to patients who self-harm. There is an absence of a detailed review on staff attitudes, beliefs and responses towards self-harm. The aim of this review was to explore and critically appraise research on how staff attitudes impact on care provision. Electronic databases were searched and relevant literature were critically analysed to gather evidence to address this review. This review identified lack of training, staff support and limited resources as contributory factors to negative attitudes and hostility towards self-harm patients. Reasons for self-harm may be misconstrued, resulting to unhelpful responses and patients being ascribed stigmatising labels. Understanding factors that contribute to these unhelpful responses allows for the development of core strategies that enhances effective care.
{"title":"Staff attitudes, beliefs and responses towards self-harm: a systematised literature review","authors":"P. Akinola, G. Rayner","doi":"10.12968/bjmh.2020.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2020.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Self-harm is a growing issue and remains a complex phenomenon in contemporary society. Understanding this behaviour may present challenges to staff providing care and support to patients who self-harm. There is an absence of a detailed review on staff attitudes, beliefs and responses towards self-harm. The aim of this review was to explore and critically appraise research on how staff attitudes impact on care provision. Electronic databases were searched and relevant literature were critically analysed to gather evidence to address this review. This review identified lack of training, staff support and limited resources as contributory factors to negative attitudes and hostility towards self-harm patients. Reasons for self-harm may be misconstrued, resulting to unhelpful responses and patients being ascribed stigmatising labels. Understanding factors that contribute to these unhelpful responses allows for the development of core strategies that enhances effective care.","PeriodicalId":149493,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Mental Health Nursing","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116518638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reasons for mental health nursing shortages in the UK are many and complex. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to fill vacant posts, while at the same time negatively impacting on the UK's international recruitment strategy. Whereas international recruitment is essential to reduce workforce shortages, it offers only a short-term solution and potentially leaves lower-income countries with increased nursing shortages themselves. This article considers that a long-term domestic approach to recruitment is needed to reduce future workforce deficits. It is argued that benefits of access courses are increased if delivered by the university directly, as a familiarity with systems, the campus and supportive networks are promoted, and the potential for targeted support is increased. Further research is needed to establish the benefits, but access courses delivered this way may provide a more sustainable solution to nursing workforce shortages in the UK and beyond.
{"title":"Access courses and their contribution to the widening participation agenda in the UK","authors":"M. Haslam, A. Flynn, Karen Connor","doi":"10.12968/bjmh.2021.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2021.0030","url":null,"abstract":"Reasons for mental health nursing shortages in the UK are many and complex. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to fill vacant posts, while at the same time negatively impacting on the UK's international recruitment strategy. Whereas international recruitment is essential to reduce workforce shortages, it offers only a short-term solution and potentially leaves lower-income countries with increased nursing shortages themselves. This article considers that a long-term domestic approach to recruitment is needed to reduce future workforce deficits. It is argued that benefits of access courses are increased if delivered by the university directly, as a familiarity with systems, the campus and supportive networks are promoted, and the potential for targeted support is increased. Further research is needed to establish the benefits, but access courses delivered this way may provide a more sustainable solution to nursing workforce shortages in the UK and beyond.","PeriodicalId":149493,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Mental Health Nursing","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122608235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Fenton, Katherine Kidd, Rachel Kingman, Sara Le-Butt, M. Gray
The rehabilitation community transition support team was created as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in faster discharges from the inpatient rehabilitation service. The aim of this evaluation was to explore the perspectives of staff and patients on their experience of the rehabilitation community transition support team. Staff and patients in the new team were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. The data were analysed using thematic analysis. Staff interviews generated seven main themes: positive staff experiences; defining the ‘team’; mode of working; link role for the team; technology; relationships with patients; and support from colleagues. The patient analysis generated five themes: positive experiences of the rehabilitation community transition support team; relationship with rehabilitation community transition support team worker; mode of working; handling the hurdles of discharge; and defining the ‘team’. There were crossovers of staff and patient themes, particularly surrounding around face-to-face visits, defining the team and relationships. Patients indicated that contact with the community team helped them to overcome both practical and emotional hurdles of discharge. The presence of a team supporting the transition from hospital to a community setting may be helpful for people who have been discharged.
{"title":"The development of the rehabilitation community transition support team as a response to COVID-19","authors":"K. Fenton, Katherine Kidd, Rachel Kingman, Sara Le-Butt, M. Gray","doi":"10.12968/bjmh.2020.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2020.0047","url":null,"abstract":"The rehabilitation community transition support team was created as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in faster discharges from the inpatient rehabilitation service. The aim of this evaluation was to explore the perspectives of staff and patients on their experience of the rehabilitation community transition support team. Staff and patients in the new team were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. The data were analysed using thematic analysis. Staff interviews generated seven main themes: positive staff experiences; defining the ‘team’; mode of working; link role for the team; technology; relationships with patients; and support from colleagues. The patient analysis generated five themes: positive experiences of the rehabilitation community transition support team; relationship with rehabilitation community transition support team worker; mode of working; handling the hurdles of discharge; and defining the ‘team’. There were crossovers of staff and patient themes, particularly surrounding around face-to-face visits, defining the team and relationships. Patients indicated that contact with the community team helped them to overcome both practical and emotional hurdles of discharge. The presence of a team supporting the transition from hospital to a community setting may be helpful for people who have been discharged.","PeriodicalId":149493,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Mental Health Nursing","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123033704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This is the twelfth article in a series that explores the meaning of positive psychology and the impact it has on the wellbeing of the mental health workforce. It will focus on positive psychology interventions that help to develop hope and considers how its uplifting effect, through contemporary use in the field of mental health nursing, can be experienced. This article initially introduces the concept of hope then links it with the field of positive psychology. It then focuses on Snyder's theory of hope and its use in promoting wellbeing. It follows with the application of hope within the nursing context. Finally, it refers to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and how hope may be used to support the mental health nursing workforce. The practical activities provided in the article will help the reader increase their own awareness of hope and consider ways to develop its use and transferability within their own life..
{"title":"Positive psychology: hope and its role within mental health nursing","authors":"J. Macfarlane","doi":"10.12968/bjmh.2021.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2021.0031","url":null,"abstract":"This is the twelfth article in a series that explores the meaning of positive psychology and the impact it has on the wellbeing of the mental health workforce. It will focus on positive psychology interventions that help to develop hope and considers how its uplifting effect, through contemporary use in the field of mental health nursing, can be experienced. This article initially introduces the concept of hope then links it with the field of positive psychology. It then focuses on Snyder's theory of hope and its use in promoting wellbeing. It follows with the application of hope within the nursing context. Finally, it refers to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and how hope may be used to support the mental health nursing workforce. The practical activities provided in the article will help the reader increase their own awareness of hope and consider ways to develop its use and transferability within their own life..","PeriodicalId":149493,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Mental Health Nursing","volume":"183 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131402159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Carson, K. Gournay, Barrie Green, Noel Tracy, Mark Haddad, Peter Pillay, D. Southern, M. Teesson, A. Baillie, Peter Huxley, Elizabeth Hughes, Richard Gray, Rita Simons, Ricky Banarsee, Peter Chung, G. Ikkos
{"title":"A living tribute to Kevin Gournay","authors":"J. Carson, K. Gournay, Barrie Green, Noel Tracy, Mark Haddad, Peter Pillay, D. Southern, M. Teesson, A. Baillie, Peter Huxley, Elizabeth Hughes, Richard Gray, Rita Simons, Ricky Banarsee, Peter Chung, G. Ikkos","doi":"10.12968/bjmh.2021.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2021.0036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":149493,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Mental Health Nursing","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116606736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Wainwright, K. Berry, C. Dunster-Page, G. Haddock
Improvement in social functioning is an important aspect of recovery from severe mental health problems. Nurses on acute mental health wards play an important role in facilitating this recovery. Therefore, it is important to explore potential predictors of social functioning and the quality of nurse–patient relationships. The aim of this study was to explore associations between patient social functioning, nurse–patient therapeutic alliances, emotional regulation, attachment style and nurse distress in acute mental health settings. A questionnaire-based, cross-sectional approach with correlational and regression analyses was used for this study. A total of 50 nurse–patient dyads in acute mental health inpatient wards across four NHS trusts in the north-west of England took part. Patients and nurses completed questionnaires regarding demographic information, emotional regulation, attachment style and alliance. Nurses also rated patient social functioning and their own distress. The patient anxious attachment style was associated with difficulties in regulating emotions. Patient emotional regulation, patient insecure attachment and the patient-rated alliance predicted nurse-rated patient social functioning. Nurse emotion regulation, nurse insecure attachment style and nurse-rated alliance did not significantly predict nurse-rated patient social functioning and correlations were non-significant. Nurse distress was associated with nurse emotion regulation, nurse anxious attachment and nurse-rated alliance. These factors significantly predicted nurse distress. Patient social functioning is predicted by emotion regulation, attachment and alliance. Similarly, nurse distress is predicted by nurse emotion regulation, attachment style and alliance. Interventions targeting emotion regulation or attachment-informed wards would be beneficial.
{"title":"Patient social functioning in acute mental health inpatient wards: the role of emotional regulation, attachment styles and nurse–patient relationships","authors":"L. Wainwright, K. Berry, C. Dunster-Page, G. Haddock","doi":"10.12968/bjmh.2018.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2018.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Improvement in social functioning is an important aspect of recovery from severe mental health problems. Nurses on acute mental health wards play an important role in facilitating this recovery. Therefore, it is important to explore potential predictors of social functioning and the quality of nurse–patient relationships. The aim of this study was to explore associations between patient social functioning, nurse–patient therapeutic alliances, emotional regulation, attachment style and nurse distress in acute mental health settings. A questionnaire-based, cross-sectional approach with correlational and regression analyses was used for this study. A total of 50 nurse–patient dyads in acute mental health inpatient wards across four NHS trusts in the north-west of England took part. Patients and nurses completed questionnaires regarding demographic information, emotional regulation, attachment style and alliance. Nurses also rated patient social functioning and their own distress. The patient anxious attachment style was associated with difficulties in regulating emotions. Patient emotional regulation, patient insecure attachment and the patient-rated alliance predicted nurse-rated patient social functioning. Nurse emotion regulation, nurse insecure attachment style and nurse-rated alliance did not significantly predict nurse-rated patient social functioning and correlations were non-significant. Nurse distress was associated with nurse emotion regulation, nurse anxious attachment and nurse-rated alliance. These factors significantly predicted nurse distress. Patient social functioning is predicted by emotion regulation, attachment and alliance. Similarly, nurse distress is predicted by nurse emotion regulation, attachment style and alliance. Interventions targeting emotion regulation or attachment-informed wards would be beneficial.","PeriodicalId":149493,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Mental Health Nursing","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123753396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
hadn’t. When I started grad school, I knew too little about how academic research is paid for to even know which questions to raise. And I worried that asking potential advisers about their grants would come across as rude or disrespectful. So I had kept quiet, opting to remain in the dark rather than risk alienating powerful senior scientists. But this approach left me utterly unprepared for my adviser’s pronouncement, and I wished that I had been more proactive earlier. I couldn’t go back in time, though, so I spent most of that night coming up with possible solutions. “I can give up on my current project, even though it’s very intellectually engaging, and start working on a topic I’m less excited about,” I thought. “Or maybe I should become a teaching assistant, even though I want to focus on research, or even transfer to a dif erent lab.” The next morning, I mustered the courage to ask my professor for a follow-up meeting. I told him my concerns about changing projects and shared some of the options I had come up with. Together, we brainstormed about how I could integrate my existing project in neural engineering with one that had more stable funding, on magnetotactic bacteria. Now I work on two separate but interconnected projects that together of er secure funding and intellectual fulfi llment. This arrangement has increased my workload, but it has also signifi cantly expanded my areas of expertise, of ering me fl exibility for my future research. I wouldn’t say that I’m glad I hit that funding snag, but a year later, I’m happy with my research direction, and I think the experience of working through adversity has helped improve my confi dence and my communication skills. I have also found that I’m not the only student whose training has faced potential disruption because of an adviser’s changing funding situation. A few weeks after my moment of crisis, I shared my experience with some other students, and many similar stories came out. I learned that one friend had to switch projects midway through her Ph.D. for similar reasons, and that some of my colleagues were earning their stipends by taking on extra teaching duties because their professors couldn’t obtain enough funding. A common thread was that none of us had known much about our advisers’ funding before we found ourselves in uncomfortable situations. Realizing that many of us feared repercussions if we inquired about our professors’ fi nances and that we felt ashamed about our predicaments, my friends and I set up departmental focus group discussions between administrative staf and graduate students to help us better understand how each lab is funded. It may seem like a small step, but I hope that it will help empower more graduate students to learn about their funding sources and take control of their own fi nancial situation. For myself, I am glad in hindsight that this issue arose early in my research career. It helped me learn how to come up with creative solutions to a challeng
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Electroconvulsive therapy is deemed one of the most effective treatments for alleviating symptoms in individuals diagnosed with severe depression, yet it remains one of the most controversial psychiatric treatments in contemporary mental health nursing practice. As such, its use and efficacy continue to be questioned. The following article analyses the case of Albert, a fictional character who represents the presentation of several patients who have received electroconvulsive therapy. The application of electroconvulsive therapy is evaluated, by referring to the most recent policy and national guidelines. Despite the associated stigma, electroconvulsive therapy can save lives, as portrayed by Albert. However, further research is required and updated guidance from National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is needed, specifically with regards to maintenance and relapse prevention. It is important to be aware of the implications of side effects, just as with other interventions. Overall, this article highlights the importance of safe, recovery-focused and person-centred care.
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