Acute mental health nurses: comprehensive practitioners or specialist therapists?

abstract：:Mental health nurses are faced with an increasing number of aggressive incidents during their daily practice. The coercive intervention of seclusion is often used to manage patient aggression in the Netherlands. However, GGZ Nederland, the Dutch association of service providers for mental health and addition care, has...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Jonker EJ,Goossens PJ,Steenhuis IH,Oud NE

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on a case study for a person with a diagnosis of schizophrenia using cognitive behavioural therapy. A range of scales was used to detect treatment effect and outcome. No significant clinical changes were detected using the scales, which are routinely used with such interventions. Subjective data wer...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Carden J,Jones A

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Violence in psychiatric inpatient units is a major and growing problem. Research interest has primarily focussed on patient characteristics. The role of staff factors and the antecedents of violent incidents has been neglected, despite the fact that staff factors and behaviour may be more readily amenable to change th...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Spokes K,Bond K,Lowe T,Jones J,Illingworth P,Brimblecombe N,Wellman N

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Working with people with a personality disorder (PD) can arouse strong feelings, and cause difficulties as well as different attitudes among mental health workers (MHWs). While attitudes towards people with PD and the difficulties experienced by MHWs have been previously investigated, the reciprocal relati...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Eren N,Şahin S

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nursing students have particularly experienced stressful lives during nursing education. This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate depressive symptoms and related factors in junior college nursing students. A total of 625 nursing students from a junior college in Taiwan were assessed by Pittsburgh Sleep Quality ...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Chen CJ,Chen YC,Sung HC,Hsieh TC,Lee MS,Chang CY

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a disorder generally associated with children, has become a valid disorder for adults in the last decade. The first line treatment of adult ADHD is medications, but historically there have been limitations to medication as the only treatment. Psychotherapy has become a ...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Chandler ML

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports collective data analysis for the Behavioural Status Index insight and communication and social skills subscales. This is an instrument designed specifically for health care practitioners to measure behavioural and social functioning among mental health clients, in particular those in forensic care. ...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Woods P,Reed V,Collins M

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper tests the hypothesis that patients' stereotypical dysfunctional interpersonal communication styles would be validly measurable by the command or relationship messages experienced by psychiatric nurses while interacting with the patient in the relatively unstructured every day context of the psychiatric ward...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Hafkenscheid A

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seclusion in psychiatric inpatient care means confining service users in a locked room. Service users and staff seem to have different opinions on the usefulness of seclusion. This is possibly the first time when two mental health nurses went voluntarily into seclusion and reported their experiences. The nurses felt t...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Kuosmanen L,Makkonen P,Lehtila H,Salminen H

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：:The concept of hope has received attention within nursing and healthcare literature of late yet it is fair to say that despite this increased interest, considerable gaps remain in our substantive knowledge base. Particularly noticeable is the paucity of empirically derived theory regarding the principles of inspiring ...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Cutcliffe JR

更新日期：2006-10-01 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 aim of this paper is to describe the first 2 years of operation of an electronic system for reporting medication events in psychiatry (Medi-Event system). We have carried out a descriptive analysis of all medication events (errors, near misses and adverse drug reactions) reported between 1 March 2008 and 28 Februa...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Haw C,Cahill C

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current government policy dictates that where possible patients who have learning disabilities should be cared for within the framework of ordinary generic national health services, with specialist provision kept to a minimum. The mental health care of this client group may be problematic and diagnostic overshadowing ...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Clark LL

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Compared to the general population, people with mental illness die several years prematurely. The prevalence of chronic physical illnesses such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease is higher in people with mental health illnesses, putting them at increased risk of developing skin wound...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Pirani S

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of suicide risk assessment is often a challenge for mental health nurses, especially when working with an adolescent population. Adolescents who are struggling with particular problems, stressors and life events may exhibit challenging and self-harm behaviour as a means of communication or a way of coping....

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Murray BL,Wright K

更新日期：2006-04-01 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 care of demented patients requires clear communication during care procedures. Earlier studies have shown that nurses were often vague in their verbal communication and unpublished observations indicated that in some cases demented patients continued to be verbally active after the nurses had left. This study aime...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Edberg AK,Sandgren AN,Hallberg IR

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Mental health service users (MHSUs) may experience disruptions in their education. However, education has been shown to have a positive influence on their recovery, potentially offering them broader employment opportunities. The literature suggests that providing support for MHSUs in the...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Nieminen I,Kaunonen M

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on the process and outcomes of the evaluation of an innovative nursing model (the Tidal Model). In relation to process, the study has been used to refine the methodology in terms of defining important variables to take as outcome measures to be analysed both descriptively and inferentially. In relat...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Stevenson C,Barker P,Fletcher E

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legal cases were analyzed that involved violence resulting in staff injury, patient assaults on staff, accidents involving the elderly, and patient self harm or injury where there was also an alleged breech in the duty of care. The study resulted in recommendations for: improved systems of work, including a practical ...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Lemmer B

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Internalized stigma in people diagnosed with mental illness has several negative outcomes; however, it remains unclear in an Indonesian context. The human rights of people diagnosed with mental illness in Indonesia have been routinely violated because of the existing stigma against menta...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Pribadi T,Lin EC,Chen PS,Lee SK,Fitryasari R,Chen CH

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：:Experimental ethnography enables the use of fictionalized accounts that celebrate partial truths and challenge realist and positivist ethnographic authority. Literary devices drawn from fiction arguably allow social researchers to better portray real events. Fiction, which should not be regarded as synonymous with fal...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Grant A

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to explore the daily life experiences of women who suffer from eating difficulties (ED). The research question was: what mental challenges related to daily life are experienced by women who suffer from ED? ED challenge the daily lives of individuals and their families. The problem is often co...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Rørtveit K,Vevatne K,Severinsson E

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The issue of self-harm is not only a widespread phenomenon but also a challenging one. Nurses in particular are faced with this challenge, as they tend to be the primary professional group when working with people who self-harm within health service provision. The purpose of this paper is to offer a critical appraisal...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Allen S

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, the effectiveness of an instructional videotape for newly admitted hospitalized psychiatric patients is discussed and evaluated. It is suggested that by using 'actors' with whom the patient is familiar (hospital staff), the educational and therapeutic benefit of the video is enhanced. This paper provi...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Meymandi A,Deaver EL

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study adopted a lived experience approach utilizing a broad research question to ask 'How do people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) experience their contact with mental health services?'. Unstructured interviews were conducted with seven participants from one mental health trust. A grounded theory meth...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Fallon P

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this phenomenological study was to increase the understanding of the experiences of chronically mentally ill individuals who are re-entering the community after hospitalization. Ten individuals from an acute care psychiatric hospital who had had two or more admissions within a 12-month period were inter...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Montgomery P,Johnson B

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WHAT IS KNOWN?: Mental health conditions are common, with recent estimates that around one in six people are diagnosed with anxiety or depression in any given year. People who experience a mental health condition not only require support from health and social care services but, at times, require an emergency response...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： White CJ

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00