Oh dear.

He’s angry. Very angry.

Now that I’ve stirred up the hornet’s nest again over at Dr Crippen’s, I think it’s now time to inject a little bit of peace and harmony. A bit of the dove and the olive branch. A bit of ebony and ivory, are side by side in the MDT [...]

I’m now just over halfway through my management placement, the 12 week (13 weeks if you include the time off for study days) placement that comes at the end of a nursing degree. Over the course of this period, you’re expected to act less and less like a student and more and more [...]

I’m just going to harken back to my little spat with Dr Crippen because one of the points I was trying to make has so far gone unanswered.

One of the objections raised in the arguments against advanced nursing roles (nurse specialists, nurse practitioners, consultant nurses) is the claim that these are NHS-only roles. [...]

I was about to post a further reply to Mental Nurse’s post Diary Of The Demented but my replies get so lengthy I thought I’d be better just creating a new post.

When our old Victorian asylum was starting to wind down, many people were full of optimism, looking forward to waving goodbye to [...]

After reading Olanzapine’s recent article about how difficult dealing with death and self harm can be, I remembered an incident that occurred when I was a student. A recently qualified nurse had the misfortune of finding a patient hanged in his room. The whole ward was shocked and the nurse who discovered the [...]

Saw this on the news this morning:

Concern over ‘poor’ dementia care

Some dementia patients are being kept in their wards 24-hours a day for years on end, BBC Scotland has learned.

Original report can be found here:

Services need to get wise to needs of older patients

A report published today, by the Mental Welfare Commission for [...]