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This work is now done by assorted auxiliaries who have been taken away from the routine cleaning duties they used to perform so that they can act up to do jobs for which [...]
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Oh dear, a silly set of comments by a silly man has unleashed a torrent of bile aimed at healthcare assistants.
The National Health and Social Life Survey supervised by Dr. Edward Laumann of the University of Chicago, was the largest and most reliable of its kind in North America. Laumann and his team reveal that straight women report having had five sex partners since they turned eighteen. Straight men report having had seventeen. [...]
This from the BBC.
Life in a typical mental health unit is not exactly festooned with luxuries. Like all hospitals, they can seem cold, clinical and austere places to many patients. And life is about to get worse for many of those held in a unit. By 1 July 2008 they must all be smoke-free. [...] I read this here the other day. In it the author, Unity, takes Edward Leigh MP to task for his views on abortion and his links to a pro-life lobby in the House of Commons seeking to advance the case for increased restrictions on abortion. The piece is an intelligent one [...]
A few weeks ago, I met up with a student – we’ll call her Mavis – for a tutorial prior to an exam. Nothing unusual in that, pretty standard university lecturer activity. Except Mavis was a third year, who should have qualified last September but was still resitting an exam she [...]
Pigeons and cats are amongst each other. The BBC Have You Say is going all guns. In the first 3 hours of this article being posted on their website, the current stats are polling at:
Total comments: 905 Published comments: 281 Rejected comments: 1 Moderation queue: 622 Not bad for 3 hours. Wonder if mentalnurse.org.uk can create that [...] (This is a guest post by Yaksley)
The Grand Old Duke of York was unusual in that he was neither up nor down. Most people often get down and then need a bit of help to cheer up. Doing nice things for people is a way of cheering them up, but be careful: [...] As everyone else is presenting the serious stuff… I thought I’d bring you this.
He thought it was a titillating idea. In an effort to make his calf tattoo of a buxom cowgirl more shapely, Lane Jensen gave the tattoo silicone breast implants. But after two weeks, the Edmonton tattoo artist’s body [...] At Survivorworker’s request, this week’s edition is brought to you with the following words…
Police on the scene you know what I mean So yes, it is time indeed to [...] As those of you who have been following the news will know, there’s been a spate of suicides in Bridgend, South Wales. 17 young people have committed suicide, all by hanging. Nearly all of them were not known to mental health services prior to killing themselves. The media seems to be blaming the [...]
The findings of a study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry (December 2003) suggest higher incidences of illegal drug usage, alcoholism, psychological problems, and violence in the gay community than in the general population.
“Gay men and lesbians reported more psychological distress than heterosexual women, despite similar levels of social support and quality [...] This week I started on my first community placement. I am in a team that covers primary under 65’s, severe and enduring and over 65’s.
I will be spending time with 3 different CPN’s based in the same office. I will mainly be with the primary under 65 however. Having gained almost all of my [...] Student nurse The Oracle has pointed out some charming comments from the Daily Mail website.
Nurses in this country are the most rude, militant, chip of the shoulder bunch of wingers you could ever need. The problem is now they are required to do a useless degree instead of learning their primary function which [...] I don’t often go off-piste into non-mental health issues, but I’ll make an exception to highlight this story.
An e-mail sent out from a Daily Mail journalist. PUBLICATION: Daily Mail (Request for personal case study) As a wise philosopher wrote….
Here comes the hotstepper, murderer Can you tell I’m running out of ways to announce each edition of This Week in Mentalists? As always, nominations for future editions can be sent to zarathustra at [...] |
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