The authors concluded that the meta-analysis: 'revealed small to moderate positive effects of resilience training on resilience and other mental health outcomes immediately post-intervention (resilience, wellbeing) and in the short-term (anxiety symptoms, [perceived] stress), while there was a lack of evidence for training effects on depressive symptoms or any outcome at later follow-ups.'
Massage therapy has recognised psychological benefits, yet it is rarely used in forensic mental health settings. In 2022, ten-minute sessions of seated chair massage – where recipients remain fully clothed – were offered to patients and staff at a secure forensic mental health and learning disability service in the UK. This article is a service evaluation of the impact of providing these sessions. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
In this unique role, nurses offer clinical, professional and well-being support to colleagues
Professional nurse advocates (PNAs) provide professional clinical leadership in their clinical settings, says the RCN. This includes leading quality improvement programmes, developing positive learning cultures, and facilitating restorative clinical supervision (RCS) of nurses and healthcare staff, a process that supports individuals to have reflective conversations involving open feedback. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Ill health makes us vulnerable, and mental ill health that requires inpatient care, sometimes for weeks or months, even more so. Most mental health professionals strive to develop a therapeutic relationship with the people they care for that is underpinned by compassion, trust and safety. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Following research into the application of Electronic Monitoring (EM), Criminal Justice Order (2016) no. 954 was published, which introduced EM for offenders leaving custody in England and Wales (Ministry of Justice, 2016). EM was later extended to include those subjected to release on temporary licence (ROTL). The purpose of this study is to be the first, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, to evaluate a pilot project using EM during the ROTL process. The outcome allowed for recommendations to be made regarding the continued use of EM within the open prison estate. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
A healthy and valued workforce is vital for safe and compassionate mental healthcare. That was my take-home from the recent senior leadership symposium on advancing and sustaining the mental health nursing workforce. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Mental healthcare services have undergone significant changes since the start of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. In Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust one such change has been the development of a community enhanced rehabilitation team, to support service users who had experienced quicker discharge from inpatient rehabilitation services due to pandemic-related measures with transition into the community.
South Wales Police Mental Health (MH) Triage service was initiated to meet the Welsh Government MH priority of early intervention to prevent MH crisis. Community Psychiatric Nurses, based in the control-room, provide advice to police and control room staff on the management of MH-related incidents. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the first 12 months of operation (January-December 2019). To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
The review found that mindful self-compassion interventions had medium-to-large effect sizes for self-compassion, traumatic stress, burnout, stress and compassion satisfaction. There was also high intervention adherence (mean=86%) in the included studies. Since these interventions can improve self-compassion and compassion in nurses, they have the potential to enhance the quality of compassionate care provided by nurses who undergo training in mindful self-compassion.
Results Overall, the democratic style of leadership and the integrating style of conflict management were the most favoured by participants, while the laissez-faire leadership style and the dominating style of conflict management were the least favoured. Significant positive correlations were established between the leadership styles of participants and their conflict management styles. The regression analysis showed a significant predictive power of leadership styles, specifically the democratic and autocratic styles, on 30% of the variance in conflict management styles.
The purpose of this research is to develop an understanding of the experiences of staff working with PSWs in a community forensic team and the impact this has on them. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This study described programs that aim at diverting persons with mental health conditions out of criminal justice systems to community mental health services, with the intention to inform research and practice.To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
The therapeutic relationship is not always functional in clinical practice due to various factors, such as lack of time, lack of job motivation, exhaustion and rejection towards the person cared for.
Clinical practice within statutory roles is an important issue for the nursing profession. There is increasing involvement of nurses undertaking statutory roles and opportunities for nurses to advocate and offer their unique clinical opinion regarding the need for restrictive measures imposed by mental health act legislation. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Reducing admissions is a laudable aim, and the evidence is that, overall, peer support did not achieve this in this high need population, but admissions is not the only important outcome.
Given the positive results from some other high quality RCTs, and importantly from qualitative work about the experiences of those providing and receiving peer support, and the quite specific circumstances in which the results of this study apply, peer support arguably still has much to offer.
Overall, the study provides interesting insights into stakeholders’ perspectives of HIIT in psychiatric inpatient settings, but the question remains about how we find out the views of stakeholders with no interest in exercise.
Nurse managers should consider how floating shifts are administered so that nurses feel supported when working on a different ward or unit. Nurse managers can greatly influence nurses’ ability to manage floating shifts. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
The study is consistent with previous research in finding that IHT reduced the amount of time spent in hospital for people experiencing an acute mental health crisis. The average reduction of 24.55 days in hospital over 12 months seems clinically significant, especially as this study was performed in a modern crisis care system with a greater number of other care options than in previous studies. Therefore, the findings should be disseminated to clinicians and service users, to show that home treatment is an effective alternative to hospital admission. Importantly for those who might be worried about the risks of IHT, the study did not find any increase in adverse events or later compulsory admission, although there might not have been a big enough sample size to detect a difference.
Identifying patient-reported outcomes of the nurse-patient relationship is a priority in inpatient mental healthcare to guide clinical decision-making and quality improvement initiatives. Moreover, demonstrating nurse-sensitive patient outcomes can be a strategy to avoid further erosion of the specialism of psychiatric and/or mental health nursing. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.