All Outputs (18)

Ontological insecurity of inattentiveness: Conceptualizing how risk management practices impact on patient recovery when admitted to an acute psychiatric hospital (2023)
Journal Article

Risk management which assesses and mitigates risks such as suicide and violence is under scrutiny, particularly within psychiatric inpatient settings. Restrictive practices, which result from risk assessment, such as observations, physical restraint... Read More about Ontological insecurity of inattentiveness: Conceptualizing how risk management practices impact on patient recovery when admitted to an acute psychiatric hospital.

Interprofessional perspectives of mental health crisis: For nursing, health, and the helping professions (2022)
Book Chapter

The chapter consists of the role of Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams (CRHTTs), seen sometimes as the last bastion of crisis management before psychiatric hospital admission. When warranted, an important caveat, in that exploration will touc... Read More about Interprofessional perspectives of mental health crisis: For nursing, health, and the helping professions.

COVID-19-related stressors and coping strategies of support staff working with people with learning disabilities (2021)
Journal Article

Abstract
Background
During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, support staff working with people with learning disabilities experienced a range of stressors directly related to the effects of the pandemic on themselves and on service... Read More about COVID-19-related stressors and coping strategies of support staff working with people with learning disabilities.

The risk of risk management: Adopting critical theories to explore clinical risk concerns in mental health care (2021)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to outline several critical risk theories and explore their application to risk concerns in mental health care. This will contribute to the on-going debate about risk management practices and the impact these mig... Read More about The risk of risk management: Adopting critical theories to explore clinical risk concerns in mental health care.

Giving a voice to patient experiences through the insights of pragmatism (2020)
Journal Article

As a philosophical position, pragmatism can be critiqued to distinguish truth only with methods that bring about desired results, predominantly with scientific enquiry. The article hopes to dismiss this oversimplification and propose that within ment... Read More about Giving a voice to patient experiences through the insights of pragmatism.

Approaches to reviewing the literature in grounded theory: A framework (2020)
Journal Article

Background
There is considerable debate about how to review the literature in grounded theory research. Notably, grounded theory typically discourages reviewing the literature before data is collected and analysed, so that researchers do not form p... Read More about Approaches to reviewing the literature in grounded theory: A framework.

Helpful risk management practices acording to service user views (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Given the limited presence of service user perspectives in the risk management literature (Eidhammer et al., 2014), the review employed a mixed studies design to maximise the capture of relevant studies.

To ensure quality of reporting PRISMA guid... Read More about Helpful risk management practices acording to service user views.

Patient perspectives of helpful risk management practices within mental health services. A mixed studies systematic review of primary research (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd What is known about the subject?: Risk in psychiatry involves harm to self or others owing to mental health difficulties, for example iatrogenic effects of treatment, self-harm, suicide and violence. Risk management is... Read More about Patient perspectives of helpful risk management practices within mental health services. A mixed studies systematic review of primary research.

Social justice, capabilities and learning support provided by lecturers: A phenomenological-hermeneutic study (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Many student nurses require additional support to undertake university level education. Lecturers are well placed to deliver learning support, which may enrich attainment with assignments. Yet fairness in how support is offered, for example if... Read More about Social justice, capabilities and learning support provided by lecturers: A phenomenological-hermeneutic study.

What activities might facilitate personal recovery for adults who continue to self-harm? A meta-synthesis employing the connectedness/hope and optimism/identity/meaning/empowerment framework (2018)
Journal Article

© 2017 Australian College of Mental Health Nurses Inc. Self-harm is an international concern. While treatment in health care focusses on methods to reduce the act, there is less exploration in how to assist adults who are unable to minimize their sel... Read More about What activities might facilitate personal recovery for adults who continue to self-harm? A meta-synthesis employing the connectedness/hope and optimism/identity/meaning/empowerment framework.

What helps successful community groups (involving peers support workers) to develop? (2016)
Journal Article

© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore features of successful peer supported community support groups hosted by St Mungo's and partners. Design/methodology/approach - Literature review and theme construc... Read More about What helps successful community groups (involving peers support workers) to develop?.

Neoliberalism and self-management: The case for social justice (2016)
Journal Article

This paper outlines the role of neoliberalism in mental health care, and the historic path of political-economical events that influenced mental health care to incorporate neoliberalism’s interpretation of independence. It also examines how aspects o... Read More about Neoliberalism and self-management: The case for social justice.

12 questions about record-keeping (2015)
Journal Article

Kris has written the following piece for the network about record-keeping. In it he raises and discusses a number of questions which we hope the network (https://criticalmhnursing.org/) will find useful to open further conversations about something w... Read More about 12 questions about record-keeping.

Why doesn't the client listen to me? Challenging ethnocentricities through clinical supervision to promote cultural competencies. (2014)
Journal Article

This paper aims to argue how developing self-awareness through clinical supervision may promote nurses’ cultural competencies in inpatient mental health care. Such capabilities include the ability to effectively work with those who may have differenc... Read More about Why doesn't the client listen to me? Challenging ethnocentricities through clinical supervision to promote cultural competencies..

Hermeneutics and risk assessment (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Reviewing clinical notes for discourse on risk

Virtious practice in nursing: Research report
Preprint / Working Paper

This report explores the role of character and virtues in nursing education and the nursing profession in the UK. Its purpose is to illuminate issues that help, or hinder, the virtuous practice of nursing.

What activities facilitate personal recovery for adults who continue to self-harm?
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A concurrent presentation on what activities may assist adults who struggle to reduce their self-harm. This was without reducing the act of self-injury. The presentation drew on a publication whereby a systematic review was conducted to discover what... Read More about What activities facilitate personal recovery for adults who continue to self-harm?.

Amplification of risk in mental health risk assessment
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation discusses how UK mental health nurses’ concern of experiencing moral indignation (e.g. outrage provoked by perceived unjust behaviours) may inadvertently increase bias in determining service users’ risk to self and others. Concern o... Read More about Amplification of risk in mental health risk assessment.