abstract：:This paper explores the impact of placing Community Mental Health Nurses (CMHNs) at two primary care practices in South Staffordshire. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire which was sent to primary care personnel at these practices, to ascertain their opinions with respect to the contribution of practice-ba...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Crawford P,Carr J,Knight A,Chambers K,Nolan P

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observation is a fundamental skilled nursing intervention. Special observation is an intensified and often prolonged form of this intervention. Depending upon their nature, and the circumstances under which they are carried out, special observations may invoke varying degrees of stress in both the observer and the obs...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Neilson P,Brennan W

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to describe the complexity of the working situation on an acute psychiatric ward as well as how nurses balance tensions between ideals and the reality of daily work. By means of field research, the study aimed to arrive at a deeper understanding of the reality that nursing staff and patients ...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Hummelvoll JK,Severinsson EI

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence to suggest that community mental health nurses experience stress and burnout related to their work. Previous research has been limited by a number of methodological problems. One of the problems is that studies have tended to have small or unrepresentative samples, and many researchers have only exam...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Burnard P,Edwards D,Fothergill A,Hannigan B,Coyle D

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the 30 years of conflict, Northern Ireland escaped the worst excess of illegal drug trafficking and usage. However, the recent 'peace dividend' has brought with it an unprecedented rise in the availability and use of illicit drugs. With this, new problems and pressures have been brought to bear on the health serv...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： McLaughlin DF,McKenna H,Leslie JC

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：:This article explores the proportion of work time psychiatric nurses spend in potentially psychotherapeutic one-to-one communication with patients. Twenty staff nurses from three acute admission wards in a psychiatric hospital in Northern Ireland were observed. The time spent in a selection of routine activities was r...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Whittington D,McLaughlin C

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents an initial study undertaken as the first step in action research concerning the first encounter between the nurse and the patient on psychiatric admission. The specific aim was to identify obstacles and possibilities of starting an ongoing learning process with mutual agreement upon goals and a goo...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Sjöstedt E,Hällström T,Lützén K

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:In this study, 10 nurses and 10 patients were interviewed to explore factors influencing nurse-patient interactions in an acute psychiatric inpatient facility. The six themes that emerged from the nursing interviews were; environment, something always comes up, nurses' attributes, patient factors, instrumental support...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Cleary M,Edwards C

更新日期：1999-12-01 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：:Since the first manifestations of HIV infection presented in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s, there has been a dramatic increase in the incidence of HIV infection and a proliferation of diseases associated with HIV infection. HIV infection is now associated with physical, psychological, mental and neurological c...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Murphy M,Melby V

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：: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：:Since Peplau outlined her perceptions of psychiatric/mental health nursing in (1952) interpersonal relationships has been considered by many as the core of practice. In the intervening period of almost a half century many researchers and theorists have endeavoured to develop and integrate Peplau's framework into day-t...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Chambers M

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-nine nurses and student nurses working in the mental health field were asked to complete a questionnaire that asked about the prevalence of their experience of events that might be considered as examples of auditory hallucinations. Eighty-four per cent of the 55 nurses who returned the questionnaire described ...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Millham A,Easton S

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a qualitative study exploring the health needs of gay men, undertaken in the Lothian area of Scotland (Robertson & Hutcheson 1995), the mental health needs of gay men were elicited through focus groups and individual interviews. A grounded theory approach (Glaser & Strauss 1967) was used to analyse the resp...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Robertson AE

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:The purpose of this study was to describe the relative strengths of a number of variables on burnout among psychiatric nurses. A meta-analysis of correlations revealed that burnout was negatively associated with job satisfaction, staff support and involvement with the organization and positively associated with role c...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Melchior ME,Bours GJ,Schmitz P,Wittich Y

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mental Health Nursing Review Team recommend research to examine the potential of liaison mental health nursing. This paper describes a study into the work of two emergency psychiatric nurses (EPN) attached to a central London accident and emergency (A&E) department. A semi-structured interview schedule was employe...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Ryrie I,Roberts M,Taylor R

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a study that aimed to identify the extent to which feigning of mental illness represents a significant problem in prisoners referred to a medium secure unit. A clinical method was used to assess the prisoners, employing the Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms (SIRS) and selected Minnesota Mu...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Pollock PH,Quigley B,Worley KO,Bashford C

更新日期：1997-02-01 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 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：: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：:This paper is concerned with the emotional experience of working with acutely disturbed patients. It examines how the disturbance of the patient unconsciously impacts upon the nurse. Using a model of the unconscious, based upon classical psychoanalytic theory, a psychodynamic approach to clinical supervision in a grou...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Winship G

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:The study reported here was conducted following claims made by a forensic psychiatric unit (called Ambrose Unit) that, in effect, it functioned as a therapeutic community. The study aimed to compare this claim with findings from the Attitude to Treatment Questionnaire (ATQ) that was administered to the staff of the un...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Clarke L

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00