The dynamics between structure and flexibility in constant observation of psychiatric inpatients with suicidal ideation.

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to further contribute to the psychometric evaluation of the Sexual Abuse Comfort Scale (SACS) in order to provide a standardized measure that would assess the impact of educational programmes on nurses' comfort to intervene with psychiatric clients regarding sexual abuse. This stud...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： McCay E,Gallop R,Austin W,Bayer M,Peternelj-Taylor C

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Psychiatric day hospital (DH) treatment has been offered since the 1930s and is appropriate for individuals experiencing intense psychiatric symptoms without requiring 24-hour inpatient care. No empirical research has examined the specific purpose of DH treatment from the perspectives of...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Taube-Schiff M,Ruhig M,Mehak A,Deathe van Dyk M,Cassin SE,Ungar T,Koczerginski D,Sockalingam S

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to approach care systematization in psychiatric nursing in two psychiatric disorder patients who attended 'Nossa Casa', São Lourenço do Sul, RS, Brazil. Nossa Casa services psychiatric patients in the community, focussing on: (i) permanence in their environment, allowing patients to remain cl...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Hirdes A,Kantorski LP

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper offers a definition of 'phatic communication' and identifies examples of it. The paper also illustrates how a knowledge of such communication is useful for mental health nurses in conversation with their clients and colleagues. The importance of turn taking in conversations is also discussed in a cultural c...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Burnard P

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: 'Expertise by experience' has become an increasingly valued element of service design and delivery by mental health service providers. The extent and influence of mental health professionals' personal experience of mental ill health on clinical practice has seldom been interrogated in de...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Oates J,Drey N,Jones J

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the 30 years of conflict, Northern Ireland escaped the worst excesses of illegal drug trafficking and usage. This was in large part due to the 'policing' of local community crime by paramilitaries. However, since the first 'cease-fire' in 1994 the province has witnessed a dramatic and unprecedented rise in the av...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： McLaughlin D,McKenna H,Leslie J,Moore K,Robinson J

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia is a devastating illness for the affected individuals and their families. Health care providers and researchers are also challenged by the clinical heterogeneity of this disorder. The goal of the present paper is to offer an updated overview of the aetiology, definition, clinical manifestations and pharm...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Provencher HL,Fournier JP,Dupuis N

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper argues that the secularization of madness, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, occurred as a consequence of cultural change that accompanied the social upheavals of the age. In examining the reconciliation of competing explanations for madness, from theological and empirical viewpoints, it is s...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Weeks NP

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The media is an important source of public information on mental ill-health. A man with a serious psychiatric illness attacked a minister with a knife at a Remembrance Sunday service in a remote, rural part of the Highlands, inflicting a severe facial wound. We aimed to identify lessons for the National Health Service...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Stark C,Paterson B,Devlin B

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of clients in the process of developing their care and treatment package is well established. If a genuine collaboration in treatment is achieved one of the fundamental bases of this process lies with 'informed consent'. Neuroleptic medication forms the basis of relapse prevention treatment for people ...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Harris NR,Lovell K,Day JC

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the results of a study into stress and quality of life in the parents of young people with an intellectual disability. Research in this area often finds that parents suffer stress as a result of having a son or daughter with an intellectual disability. According to Glidden (1993), this has led to th...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Browne G,Bramston P

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports a simple random survey of all identifiable schizophrenia sufferers, not in long-term residential or hospital care in one Health Board area. The survey was carried out (1) to assess service users' and carers' understanding of the illness, and (2) to assess perceptions of services by people with schiz...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Wray SJ

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Psychological distress is a major health concern, and university student populations are at a risk due to high academic, economic and interpersonal demands at this time. While a number of studies have been conducted looking at distress and service uptake amongst university students, ther...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Mitchell AEP

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this article is to conduct a concept analysis of the phenomenon of relational aggression. With the increases in violence among our youth, the topic of aggression, and more specifically relational aggression, has gained an increasing interest. Discussion of relational aggression is imperative because it ...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Gomes MM

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basically asymmetric character of the 'psychotic patient-psychiatric nurse' relationship constitutes an ethical challenge for the nurse. One aspect of this relationship is that nurses must constantly self-consciously control their behaviour towards the patient. There is some evidence that the patient sometimes fee...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Hem MH,Heggen K

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to gain understanding of nurses' expectations of their roles in systematic patient education in psychiatric inpatient care. Qualitative design was used in the study. The data were collected through interviews with nurses participating in the implementation of systematic patient education (...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Koivunen M,Huhtasalo J,Makkonen P,Välimäki M,Hätönen H

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much has been written about care and its centrality to nursing practice. Yet nursing theories and frameworks surrounding care have either been esoteric or prescriptive and are seen as irrelevant to practice. This paper problematizes the notion of care with a view to developing a clearer, flexible framework for mental ...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： McAllister M,Walsh K

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community mental health nurses working within the criminal justice system undertake an important function with regard to the strategic intent that wherever possible, mentally disordered persons should receive care and treatment from health and social services. Their precise role, and the particular function of court d...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Turnbull J,Beese J

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article describes the management of akathisia by a mental health nurse (MHN) prescriber, working in partnership with the patient. A single-case design was used to evaluate this. It highlights three features: first, MHN can safely prescribe psychiatric medication in combination with concordance therapy. Second, the...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Jones M,Bennett J,Gray R,Arya P,Lucas B

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper addresses my difficulties as a carer in engaging with many professionals in mental health, both locally associated with my son's acute inpatient care, and nationally where policies are being developed and their implementation is pursued. All of us are affected by The Department of Health (DoH) Mental Health...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Clarke C

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use by the nurse of the principles of narrative therapy to help patients re-author their personal narrative, and change it from a problem-saturated story to one that is more preferred, is explored. Three main narrative techniques: deconstruction, externalization and re-authoring are described. Examples of these te...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Aloi JA

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UK national guidance has prioritized developing specialist services for first episode psychosis. Such services are in the early stages of development and a definitive treatment model has yet to be established. The aim of this study was to explore service users' experiences of a first episode intervention designed alon...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： O'Toole MS,Ohlsen RI,Taylor TM,Purvis R,Walters J,Pilowsky LS

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poor practice associated with pro re nata (PRN) prescriptions in mental health is known to be common and can increase the risk of serious and potentially fatal side effects. A contributing factor to poor practice is the lack of a clear chain of accountability between the decision to prescribe and administer PRN prescr...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Price O,Baker JA

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: The Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) is a widely used measurement for psychological symptoms and distress. Some previous studies have shown that the DASS-21 can accurately measure symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress, while other studies have indicated that the DAS...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Alfonsson S,Wallin E,Maathz P

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports on research undertaken to identify the skills and competencies of forensic psychiatric nurses working in secure psychiatric services in the UK. The rationale for this research is the lack of clarity in the role definition of nurses working in these environments and the specific content that may unde...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Mason T,Coyle D,Lovell A

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to investigate the staff's experiences involved in the processes of the transition of 20 non-demented long-stay psychiatric patients. Staff members expressed satisfaction from working outside the hospital. They believed that the patients' condition and their quality of life had improved...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Reda S

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a drive towards addressing the types of care and therapeutic interventions available to people with serious mental illness, which is reflected in the latest government mental health policy initiatives. Recent evidence strongly supports the implementation of psychological and social interventions for peo...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： McCann E,Bowers L

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper addresses the topic of humanistic educative principles and examines it in the context of Irish psychiatric nurse education. Humanistic or existential philosophy influences the nursing curriculum profoundly, and yet a dichotomy continues to exist in relation to the epistemological basis informing nurse educa...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Scanlon A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: People with serious mental illnesses are overrepresented in the criminal justice system. Interventions such as Crisis Intervention Teams and Co-responder Teams may improve police officers' ability to provide effective response. There is still a gap in our knowledge of the nature of the s...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Wood JD,Watson AC,Barber C

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hazardous and harmful drinkers make up a significant percentage of A and E attendees, and brief interventions have been shown to reduce harm among this particular group. This paper evaluates a pilot project which introduced a screening and brief intervention programme within the A and E department. This project aimed ...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： O'Brien MT

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00