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R Lakeman

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PubMed2001

Making sense of the voices.

Hearing voices is a common occurrence, and an experience of many people in psychiatric/mental health care. Nurses are challenged to provide care, which is empowering and helps people who hear voices. Nursing practice undertaken in partnership with the voice hearer and informed by a working explanatory model of hallucinations offers greater helping potential. This paper uses Slade's (1976. The British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 15, 415-423.) explanatory model as a framework for exploring interventions which may assist people in exerting some control over the experience and which might be used alongside pharmacological interventions. Principles and practical ideas for how nurses might assist people to cope with and make sense of the experience are explored.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed2000

Charting the future today: psychiatric and mental health nurses in cyberspace.

The development of the Internet is happening at a staggering pace and promises to have a dramatic impact on human relations. If nursing is to adapt to and benefit from these changes, consideration ought to be given to the experiences and opinions of nurses who have adapted to and use the technology. This paper provides an outline of the findings of an Email survey of psychiatric and mental health nurses who are experienced in using the Internet. Questions focused on what psychiatric and mental health nurses use the Internet for, how their use has changed, work-related benefits, and what impact they see the Internet having in the future.

Diffusion of Innovation↗
PubMed2000

Negotiating the ethical minefield of psychiatric nursing practice.

Psychiatric nursing practice can be likened to an ethical minefield. Nurses are often in the middle of the minefield and are pushed and pulled by forces, which are sometimes beyond their control. This paper signposts some of the more problematic areas of practice so that nurses may be equipped with at least a broad over-view of the ethical terrain.

Ethics, Nursing↗
PubMed1999

Advanced nursing practice: experience, education and something else.

The purpose of this paper is to stimulate discussion and debate about the 'concept' of 'advanced practice' and the wider issue of 'advancing' nursing practice. Defining, credentialling and regulating advanced practice promises rich fruits for nursing. Advancing nursing practice will be a consequence only if the right conditions are fostered for the development and provision of nursing expertise in practice. A conscious and collective effort must be made to ensure that the expertise of all nurses is recognised and developed. One process which has shown promise in psychiatric and mental health nursing is 'clinical supervision'. Evolving nursing leadership roles and more education can provide only a partial solution to the problem of advanced and advancing practice.

Education, Nursing, Graduate↗
PubMed1998

Removing the toll bridge to compulsory treatment.

The Mental Health Act 1992 requires that an application for compulsory assessment is accompanied by a medical certificate. This requirement has placed nurses and proposed patients at risk.

Clinical Competence↗
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Using the Internet for data collection in nursing research.

This article examines how the internet may be used as a tool for data collection in nursing research. An overview of the demographic composition of the Internet population is outlined and discussed as a constraint on the type of research that can be undertaken using the Internet. Methods of data collection such as e-mail and WWW questionnaires are discussed as well as the possibility of virtual focus groups. Some of the difficulties and advantages that may confront the researcher wishing to undertake research using the Internet are outlined.

Computer Communication Networks↗