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Behind closed doors
- Author:
- MUNRO Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 11.11.98, 1998, p.17.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Looks at the bleak picture of acute inpatient psychiatric care painted in the report, 'Acute Problems', out this week.
It's purely professional
- Author:
- GULLAND Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 25.2.98, 1998, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on the ethical dilemmas of mental health nurses when defining the boundaries in their relationship with a patient.
More than skin deep
- Author:
- HOLE Louise
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 19.8.98, 1998, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Explains the psychological effects that often emerge as patients with major trauma experience when they begin to recover from their physical injuries.
In your face
- Author:
- COOMBES Rebecca
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 12.8.98, 1998, p.17.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on how latest statistics about the use of CS spray on people with mental health problems have ignited the debate about acceptable restraint techniques.
When the walls came down
- Author:
- GITTINS Diana
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.5.98, 1998, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Hears the views of former patients at Severalls Hospital, a long stay psychiatric institution in Essex.
Wards of fear
- Author:
- HART Sam
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 29.4.98, 1998, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on how an alarming number of female psychiatric patients are sexually assaulted while on mixed-sex wards.
Safety measures
- Author:
- ROONEY James
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 15.1.98, 1998, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Considers the implications of a recent survey of medium-secure units for mentally disordered patients which revealed wide variations in staff-to-patient ratios.
Guidelines for mental health and learning disabilities nursing: a guide to working with vulnerable clients
- Authors:
- UNITED KINGDOM CENTRAL COUNCIL FOR NURSING, MIDWIFERY AND HEALTH VISITING
- Publisher:
- United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 27p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Booklet produced as a guide to providing user centred, sensitive services. Aimed at nurses working with patients with mental health problems or learning difficulties.
Managing high security psychiatric care
- Editors:
- KAYE Charles, FRANEY Alan
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 302p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Collection of papers examining the managing of secure psychiatric services. Includes chapters on: a brief history of the special hospitals; tackling the culture; security and therapy; the physical environment; industrial relations; describing the patients; learning disability in the special hospitals; patients as intimate partners - resolving a policy crisis; special hospitals and change; freedom from restraint; a doctor's view; research and development; the Mental Health Act Commission; inquiries and inspections; press and public relations; the criminal justice system; and achievements and the future.
Effects of hospital closure on mortality rates of over-65 long-stay psychiatric population
- Authors:
- JACKSON Graham Alan, WHYTE Jennifer
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 13(12), December 1998, pp.836-839.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The closure of a 100-year-old hospital has allowed the authors to look at the effects on mortality of moving the whole over-65 long-stay population to other settings. The results confirm that there is a slight excess of deaths during and immediately after these moves, but that there is no long-term effect on morality rates.