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Understanding your regulator
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has come in for some well-deserved flak over the years, but for most nurses, the only contact they have with the profession's regulator is when they send off a payment for their registration.
Understanding your regulator
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has come in for some well-deserved flak over the years, but for most nurses, the only contact they have with the profession's regulator is when they send off a payment for their registration.
Manifesto for best practice
Occasionally you meet people who have a view on life that makes so much sense it seems ridiculous that it has not been adopted by mainstream culture.
Breaking the cycle
There is sobering news in the latest statistics from the Health and Social Care Information Centre about the mortality of people with serious mental health problems.
Suicide risk in a recession
The latest suicide statistics make grim reading: more than 6,000 people took their own lives in 2011, up from 5,600 in 2010 and the highest number since 2004.
Doing the right thing
There is a recurrent theme in this month's journal: and it is about giving appropriate care.
A rich and varied career
One of the great things about working in mental health nursing is the variety of experiences that are available. Whatever it is to be a nurse, it is not boring, and that is apparent from the range of articles in this month's journal.
Rewarding raised expectations
You might think that nurses should be doing everything they can to address the poor physical health of people with long-term mental health problems. And you would be right.
Tools that add to practice
Using a pinball machine as an analogy for what happens when a person is bereaved could be seen as flippant. But, as Margaret Baier and Ruth Buechsel's article shows, it can help people to understand what they are going through and cope with their situation.
Making economic sense
Lord Layard is the economist who convinced the last government to fund the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme because it would save the nation money in the long run. His latest report makes interesting reading.
A case of the recession blues
Three years ago a group of influential organisations published a report called Mental Health and the Economic Downturn: National Priorities and NHS Solutions (Royal College of Psychiatrists et al 2009).
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