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Mental Nurse

http://www.mentalnurse.org.uk

Quite a bit mental, a little but nurse. The life of an RMN

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  • How not to be Nurse Ratched

    Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 16:43 in work, reflection, abuse, ethics, supervision

    DeeDee’s post about misconduct by mental health workers has (rightly) thrown up a lot of strong feelings. Over on Aethelred’s blog, there’s the following commentary: (And, goodness me, but isn’t it noticeable how disengaged from t...

  • This Week in Mentalists (108)

    Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 12:18 in work, this week in mentalists

    Apologies for TWIM being a day late, which was due to a hectic day yesterday. Mad Sad Girl describes an admission to an acute ward. I was submitted to an interrogation, the technique of which the KGB would have admired. I should remind you that I w...

  • Why Some People Hate All Mental Health Professionals

    Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 06:32 in work, Treatment, Mental Illness, ranting

    This is a post about the systematic, institutional abuse of patients by mental health nursing staff. I had the misfortune in the late 1990s of spending a year in total as an inpatient in a Big Dublin Hospital where many of the staff treated the patie...

  • Hello Ipnosis Readers

    Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 05:32 in work, Site News, ipnosis, regulation of psychotherapy

    I had a suprise in my e-mail inbox this morning. A complimentary copy of the electronic journal Ipnosis, which was sent to me by their editor Yvonne Bates. I hadn’t come across Ipnosis before (though I’ve seen their sister website, the un...

  • Degrees of ignorance

    Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 11:14 in work, media, nurse education

    Opinions about nurse training are like haemorrhoids. Sooner or later every arsehole develops one. With the news that all nurses in England will train to degree level from 2013, we’ve had a whole slew of opinions across the media about whether t...

  • Empty of Inspiration

    Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 15:35 in politics, work, insurance, mental health, funding, Waffle

    Really I have no idea what I am about to write. I was intending to do a whole what is mental illness type post, then thought frankly life is too short. So I am going to discuss a couple of things I came across recently and try to link them together f...

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lehane

4 stars Mac the Observer

Lots of great info here. -- nurse@tees4nurses.com

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