{"title":"Two tales of Mabel.","authors":"C Jackson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 2","pages":"52-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20329717","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}
In 1995 the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health commissioned a major review of all specialist mental health training. The current, largely uni-disciplinary approach to training was felt to be failing to equip professionals with the necessary skills for today's multi-disciplinary, integrated, community-based service, where users and their carers expect an equal partnership and sharing of information. Kevin Gournay and Susannah Strong outline the findings and recommendations of the review, and its implications for mental health nurse education, which make a case for its separation from the rest of the nursing profession.
{"title":"Pulling together: multi-disciplinary training for mental health nursing.","authors":"K Gournay, S Strong","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 1995 the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health commissioned a major review of all specialist mental health training. The current, largely uni-disciplinary approach to training was felt to be failing to equip professionals with the necessary skills for today's multi-disciplinary, integrated, community-based service, where users and their carers expect an equal partnership and sharing of information. Kevin Gournay and Susannah Strong outline the findings and recommendations of the review, and its implications for mental health nurse education, which make a case for its separation from the rest of the nursing profession.</p>","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 2","pages":"54-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20329718","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}
Mental health trusts serving scattered rural communities face particular challenges when attempting to identify and meet unmet need. A number of social, geographical and practical factors are involved. Kim Kirkwood and David Peck describe one such survey, carried out by the Highland Communities NHS Trust, the failure of which raises a number of important issues for practitioners and service planners.
{"title":"How do you identify people with severe mental illness in rural communities?","authors":"K Kirkwood, D Peck","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mental health trusts serving scattered rural communities face particular challenges when attempting to identify and meet unmet need. A number of social, geographical and practical factors are involved. Kim Kirkwood and David Peck describe one such survey, carried out by the Highland Communities NHS Trust, the failure of which raises a number of important issues for practitioners and service planners.</p>","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 2","pages":"61-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20329720","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}
People with learning disabilities need to know about sexual health issues, and HIV/AIDS in particular. But how to convey complex and sensitive information in a clear and simple written format? Joëlle Brogan shows it can be done.
{"title":"Love and friendship.","authors":"J Brogan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People with learning disabilities need to know about sexual health issues, and HIV/AIDS in particular. But how to convey complex and sensitive information in a clear and simple written format? Joëlle Brogan shows it can be done.</p>","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 2","pages":"64-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20329721","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}
{"title":"UK nurses have no right to feel complacent about the recent revelations that people with learning disabilities.","authors":"C Jackson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 2","pages":"41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20329713","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}
Research advances knowledge; audit is a way of ensuring that this new knowledge is applied to practice. Uni-disciplinary audit is well-established; multi-disciplinary audit presents other challenges. Jonathan Ash outlines and illustrates how nurses working in a multi-disciplinary mental health team can initiate, design and use audit to improve the quality of the service, and to ensure it meets users' wants and needs.
{"title":"Multi-disciplinary audit and the mental health nurse.","authors":"J Ash","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research advances knowledge; audit is a way of ensuring that this new knowledge is applied to practice. Uni-disciplinary audit is well-established; multi-disciplinary audit presents other challenges. Jonathan Ash outlines and illustrates how nurses working in a multi-disciplinary mental health team can initiate, design and use audit to improve the quality of the service, and to ensure it meets users' wants and needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 2","pages":"58-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20329719","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}
{"title":"Finding a home.","authors":"J Green","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 2","pages":"69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20329723","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}
In 1989 the uprising against the Ceausescu regime blew the lid off the hidden horrors of Romania's mental hospitals. Aid poured in from western agencies and charities. Eight years on, with attention switched elsewhere, how much has changed?
{"title":"One hell of a trip.","authors":"M Harris","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 1989 the uprising against the Ceausescu regime blew the lid off the hidden horrors of Romania's mental hospitals. Aid poured in from western agencies and charities. Eight years on, with attention switched elsewhere, how much has changed?</p>","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 2","pages":"48-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20329716","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}
Organisational and administrative concerns topped the list of stressors reported by a national sample of hospital and community mental health nurses. Seven of the ten top stressors were listed by both groups. Community nurses also listed inadequate service provision and lack of time to plan treatment. Hospital nurses were most stressed by inadequacy of staffing cover in potentially dangerous situations and low morale at work. Jerome Carson et al believe the findings indicate an urgent need for change at senior NHS management and administration level.
{"title":"Stress in mental health nursing: findings from the Mental Health Care survey.","authors":"J Carson, M Wood, H White, B Thomas","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Organisational and administrative concerns topped the list of stressors reported by a national sample of hospital and community mental health nurses. Seven of the ten top stressors were listed by both groups. Community nurses also listed inadequate service provision and lack of time to plan treatment. Hospital nurses were most stressed by inadequacy of staffing cover in potentially dangerous situations and low morale at work. Jerome Carson et al believe the findings indicate an urgent need for change at senior NHS management and administration level.</p>","PeriodicalId":79511,"journal":{"name":"Mental health care","volume":"1 1","pages":"11-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20329706","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}