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‘Toxic culture’ of abuse at mental health hospital revealed by BBC secret filming

Author: Editorial 29th September 2022 0 Comments

This report comes from the BBC’s Panorama team and Joseph Lee. It begins: “Humiliated, abused and isolated for weeks – patients were put at risk due to a ‘toxic culture’ at one of the UK’s biggest mental health hospitals, BBC Panorama…
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Alan Haslam, BBC, BBC Panorama, coercive psychiatry, Edenfield Centre, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Joseph Lee, mental health nurses

The Invisibility of Spiritual Nursing Care in Clinical Practice

Author: Editorial 19th May 2022 0 Comments

Co-written by Dawn Hawthorne and Shirley Gordon, this article – which applies to mental health nursing as a well as nursing in general – has been published in the Journal of Holistic Nursing. The abstract says: “Background and Purpose: Spirituality has been…
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Clients & Patients, Journal of Holistic Nursing, mental health nurses, nursing care, spirituality

Conscientious Objection to forced pharmaceutical interventions: FAQ

Author: Editorial 9th February 2022 0 Comments

This list of FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) – with a response to those questions – has been put together by Mick Mckeown and Jonathan Gadsby and published by the Critical Mental Health Nurses’ Network. It begins: “Following is a list of frequently asked…
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Clients & Patients, coercive psychiatry, conscientious objection, Critical Mental Health Nurses' Network, forced pharmaceutical interventions, Jonathan Gadsby, mental health nurses, Mick Mckeown, pharmaceutical drugs

Trauma-informed practice: a paradigm shift in the education of mental health nurses

Author: Editorial 4th March 2021 0 Comments

“The emphasis is on what has happened to the person instead of what is wrong with the person.” This article has been co-authored by Jennifer Young, James Taylor, Brodie Paterson, Ivor Smith and Sandy McComish. It has been published in Mental…
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mental health nurses, Mental Health Practice, RCNi, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, trauma, trauma-informed approaches, University of Stirling

Critical Mental Health Nursing: Observations from the Inside

Author: Editorial 10th July 2020 0 Comments

This book has been edited by Pete Bull, Jonathan Gadsby and Stephen Williams. The publishers say: “The argument that propels this emphatic book is that mental health nursing cannot continue to pin the blame for its own actions and failings on…
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books, Critical Mental Health Nurses’ Network, Jonathan Gadsby, mental health nurses, Pete Bull, Stephen Williams

‘Policing’ mental health in London

Author: Editorial 7th May 2020 0 Comments

The BBC (February, 2019) report : “City of London Police set up a new scheme to improve how officers respond to mental health incidents.” You can watch a short video about this from here .

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BBC, London, mental health nurses, New Approaches, police, sectioning, street triage

Mental health nurses join police officers on duty

Author: Editorial 6th May 2020 0 Comments

The BBC report (April 2019) that: “Police in Berkshire have stopped more than 150 mental health patients from being sectioned or detained unnecessarily in cells over the past year. Officers credit an initiative where mental health nurses join them on duty for…
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BBC, mental health nurses, New Approaches, police, sectioning, street triage, videos

Luddite Health Promotion

Author: Editorial 18th October 2018 0 Comments

Writing for the Critical Mental Health Nurses’ Network , Ed Lord says: “… As a mental health nurse I find myself at a certain nexus of regimes of knowledge, institutional practices and subjective experiences of mental distress. These forces shape who we are in our…
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Critical Mental Health Nurses’ Network, Ed Lord, evidence-based practice, mental health nurses, psychiatry, technocracy