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.
Boundaries in advanced nursing practice: the benefits of group supervision
Aim The aim of this study was to identify the effects of a clinical supervision group on the...
10 Jul 2014
A team approach to borderline personality disorder
In an acute admissions unit for adults with mental health problems staff were often faced...
10 Jul 2014
Facial affect recognition and mental health
Not being able to accurately detect and respond to the emotions conveyed in the facial...
10 Jul 2014
Acute inpatient care in the UK. Part 1: recovery-oriented wards
Service users, staff and carers have long expressed dissatisfaction with the quality of...
10 Jul 2014
Eating disorders and artificial re-feeding
This article is a literature review into the efficiency of artificial re-feeding in eating...
09 Jun 2014
Non-medical prescribers in substance misuse services in England and Scotland: a mapping...
Aims To locate all non-medical prescribers working in substance misuse services in England...
09 Jun 2014
A model of de-escalation
While de-escalation is much discussed among staff, and guidelines tell us to use it more,...
09 Jun 2014
Delivering training with a colleague: How to make co-training work
Co-training can be an excellent experience for students and trainers alike, and can support...
09 Jun 2014
Shared decision making in psychiatric medicines management
It is increasingly recognised that shared decision making should be routine in all areas of...
09 May 2014
Strategies for engaging people with personality disorder in treatment
Around one third of people with personality disorder do not complete treatment. It is...
09 May 2014
The implications of adopting a human rights approach to recovery in practice
This article proposes a human rights-based definition of recovery in response to the...
09 May 2014
The power of the media to shape perceptions of mental illness
Headlines in the press that include words such as ‘psycho’, ‘bonkers’ or ‘madman’ have been...
09 May 2014
Service users’ disclosure practices following discharge from hospital
Using qualitative data collected from 31 participants, this article describes mental health...
09 Apr 2014
The recovery orientation of patients and staff in a high secure hospital
Before and after introducing the recovery approach at Broadmoor Hospital the views of...
09 Apr 2014
Decision making, responsibility and accountability in community mental health teams
Community mental health teams comprise many professionals who share the common goal of...
09 Apr 2014
Provision of clinical supervision for staff working in mental health services
A questionnaire was used to investigate the provision of clinical supervision for nurses and...
09 Apr 2014
Care of patients in Malawi who have HIV/AIDS and mental health problems
Aim This study investigated the support that general nurses in the Blantyre District of...
09 Apr 2014
Helping people with serious mental illness to cut down or stop smoking
The prevalence of smoking in people with serious mental illness is up to 5.3 times higher...
12 Mar 2014