By duck, on August 30th, 2006
From Duck.
ok i will try and keep this brief. I greatly desire to be a mental health nurse and have applied to do an access course to try and get onto nurse diploma or degree course. I wish to apply this year but i have supposed post traumatic stress and have [...]
By malcolmroff, on August 28th, 2006
This is not Mental. This is an impostor. Call me Malcolm.
Its a bank holiday. Traffic outside is quiet, I’m sort of hoping that traffic to the site is quiet too, cos this is my first post proper – with its very own headline.
Just like at the beginning of the Blue [...]
By lisa23, on August 26th, 2006
Have a post from a newly signed up member of the site:
hi!
I’ve just been referred to my local mental health team via my GP after suffering from depression for at least 6 years. got my appointment with CPN in October and not really sure as to what will happen when i go. [...]
By Mental Nurse, on August 25th, 2006
This is nothing to to with work, or much to do with mental health.
I was thinking about labeling people and terms like the ‘happy demented’. I was mentally composing a post about nurses use of verbal shorthand (shorthand ? hand, verbal ?) when I noticed something.
I had just been shopping for facial [...]
By Mental Nurse, on August 21st, 2006
For roughly the last year I have been working with the elderly. Specifically the elderly suffering from dementing conditions. Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia, alcohol related problems etc. etc. Now I am off to a new job and can discuss some of my thoughts and feelings about the Mental Health and Care of the [...]
By Mental Nurse, on August 9th, 2006
Just found this, sorry for being so slow. Remember how the Government bottled a major reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 ? Here is what they are up to instead.
The Mental Health Bill: Plans to amend the Mental Health Act 1983
As part of its comprehensive strategy to reform and modernise mental health [...]
By Mental Nurse, on August 9th, 2006
Just a quick link while I am waiting for a contribution from someone, you know who you are !
Audio feeds from the Institute of Psychiatry
Welcome to the Institute of Psychiatry audio feeds. We aim to bring to you all public lectures and events at the Institute of Psychiatry, this includes, the popular Maudsley [...]
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