Clinical
Our clinical nursing articles aim to inform and educate nurse practitioners and students. This is achieved through the publication of peer-reviewed, evidence-based, relevant and topical articles.
Living with schizophrenia and atypical medication
Background There is no available evidence providing detailed and valid accounts of how...
10 Feb 2016
Evaluation of an e-prescribing pilot in an inpatient recovery unit
Aim To evaluate an e-prescribing pilot project that took place in a recovery unit in...
10 Feb 2016
Parental mental illness: incidence, assessment and practice
Parental mental illness is a risk factor for a range of negative experiences for children...
10 Feb 2016
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in clinical practice
NHS staff are expected to implement National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE...
10 Feb 2016
Mental health nurses on prescribing in Ireland
The study described here gauged perceptions of nurse prescribing among non-prescriber mental...
11 Nov 2015
Delivering cognitive behaviour therapy in a secure setting
This article describes a service development aimed at increasing access to cognitive...
11 Nov 2015
Using touch as a way to manage aggression
This article explores the positive effects of touch, in particular the benefits and...
11 Nov 2015
Are mental health nurses natural smoking cessation practitioners?
People who have mental health problems have higher morbidity and mortality rates than the...
11 Nov 2015
Importance of co-working in family interventions
For patients experiencing psychosis, family work is an effective and important intervention...
09 Oct 2015
Exemption from the smoking ban in mental health hospitals in Wales
The 2007 Welsh smoking ban in public places exempts mental health hospitals. This...
09 Oct 2015
Evaluation of borderline personality disorder awareness workshops for service users and...
The provision of borderline personality disorder (BPD) awareness workshops was a direct...
09 Oct 2015
Introducing a behavioural family therapy approach in a secure setting
Aims To describe the development and the initial results of a behavioural family therapy...
09 Oct 2015
Formulation-based risk assessment
Risk assessment remains fundamental to all mental health practice. Use of a framework of...
09 Sep 2015
A healthy community living skills group in a high security hospital
This article discusses the setting up and running of a healthy community living skills group...
09 Sep 2015
Problem-based learning in pre-registration mental health nursing: the student experience
Aim The aim of this study was to explore the use of problem-based learning (PBL) in the...
09 Sep 2015
Inpatient mental health care in the first world war
The rising casualty rates during the first world war caused a major problem for the British...
09 Sep 2015
Guidance for novice cognitive behaviour therapy supervisors
The recent much needed increase in the provision of evidenced-based psychological...
09 Sep 2015
Sleep intervention for adults with autism spectrum condition
Aim The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a psychoeducation sleep-...
07 Jul 2015