Biomedical subjects
P Nolan
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A measurement tool for assessing stress among mental health nurses.
There is growing evidence that nursing is a stressful occupation, particularly mental health nursing. However, the lack of an appropriate measurement tool has meant it has been difficult to investigate the nature of this stress. The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of one such scale for measuring stress in mental health nurses, the Mental Health Professional Stress Scale. A total of six questionnaires was sent to a sample of 210 community and hospital mental health nurses. The findings suggested that the scale was a useful measure and predictor of stress. The most consistent predictor of poor mental health outcomes for nurses was home/work conflict, outweighing the significance of client/patient-related difficulties.
Primary mental health care: whose role is it anyway?
Nursing, in common with all healthcare disciplines, has had to respond to major developments in the wider context of health care. Shifts in government policy, changing preferences for the location of health care, over-stretched resources and new developments in medical technologies have all had a considerable impact on the modes of healthcare delivery, including nursing care. In times of rapid change, new healthcare roles emerge, others are reconstructed and some decline, as happened when fever nursing became obsolete owing to improvements in health care and living conditions during the first half of the twentieth century (Currie 1997). Over the past two decades, some nursing disciplines have expanded considerably--especially those based in the community--and specialist nursing roles in areas such as infection control, continence care, palliative care, psychotherapy, tissue viability and pain management have become commonplace. This article examines some of the implications of the 'new NHS' for practice nurses and community mental health nurses (CMHNs).
Nursing language: uses and abuses.
Nurses communicate with a variety of people on many different levels. Yet the full importance of nurse language is not fully appreciated. This article examines the use of nursing language and suggests that nurses can increase their professional potential through using language more consciously.
Wall street coming to a ward near you.
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From sanctuary to laboratory.
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Brainstorming the role of mental health nursing.
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Recollections of a mental hospital dentist.
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Ideology and mental health care - two historical perspectives.
Two dominant caring ideologies have prevailed in mental health care over the past two centuries and are observable in modern nursing theory and practice. The first is grounded in philosophy and focuses on such issues as: "What is it to be human?"; "How should the good life be lived?" and "What conditions enable human beings to realise their potential?" The best example of this humanistic approach can be seen in the care that was provided at the York Retreat in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The second ideology is the result of the rise of biological psychiatry during and after the Second World War. Psychiatric nurses serving in the forces worked alongside doctors as autonomous practitioners and brought their considerably extended expertise back to their civilian work. This paper examines the ethos of the York Retreat and the innovative work of nurses during the Second World War and shows how they have influenced mental health nursing today.
Trained for what? A history of mental nursing and its training.
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Challenging violence.
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Child of hardship. Interview by Toni Turner.
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[Nursing care. Its perception by the patients].
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Repair of traumatic splenic injuries by splenorrhaphy with polyglycolic acid mesh.
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Alterations of capillary flow during sepsis.
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