Objectives The review aimed to 1) explore the constituents of nurse-patient therapeutic
engagement on acute mental health wards; 2) map factors that influence engagement to the …

Accessible Summary What is known on the subject? There is no qualitative systematic
review of nurses' perceptions of their interactions with people hearing voices. There are …

Accessible summary What is known on the subject? Mental health nursing in the UK and
other countries faces an acute workforce crisis. Safe staffing levels are called for, and in …

This article aims to draw attention to increasing genericism in nurse education in the United
Kingdom, which sees less specialist mental health education for mental health nursing …

Background Communication and information sharing are considered crucial to recovery‐
focused mental health services. Effective mental health care planning and coordination …

This discussion paper offers a critical provocation to my mental health nursing colleagues.
Drawing upon David Graeber's account of bullshit work, work that is increasingly …

Nurse–patient therapeutic engagement on acute mental health wards is beneficial to service
users' outcomes and nurses' job satisfaction. However, engagement is not always fulfilled in …

Authors have generally reported that mental health nurses (MHNs) have positive attitudes to
providing physical health care to service users with severe mental illness. In the present …

This chapter is written by people with quite different experiences of violence in relation to the
practice and organization of psychiatric services. It is our intention to draw upon our own …

In recent decades concerns about violence and programs for the minimization of physical
restraint, amongst other restrictive practices, have proliferated within mental health policy …