A blog about the desperate state of UK mental nursing, how we got there and how it just might be saved.
Ideas for organising the material.
I’m working on how I’ll organise this site. All I know so far is it won’t be neat and tidy. There are far too many topics and none of them can sit neatly on their own, they all cross-pollinate and affect other domains. Take the crusade towards eradicating restraint and seclusion. That touches staff injuries – sickness – overtime, agency and bank staff – resignations, vacancies, recruitment and retention – unions – Or from another angle – having to waste a staff constantly observing a secluded patient – additional time wasted arranging 2 & 4 hourly nursing and medical reviews – borrowing staff from other wards – staff not getting their breaks – notes and meds being late – ad nauseum.
Here’s a list I’ve started of categories and tags for posts.
Calocane – Violence – Least Restrictive – Unsustainable – Seclusion – Medication (many sub-categories here) – CQC – Community Nursing – Mental Hospital – Sectioning and MHA – Assertive Outreach – Leadership – Bring back Enrolled Nurses – Bring back Schools of Nursing – Degrees, Diplomas and Certificates – Schizophrenia – Borderline Personality Disorder – What’s gone wrong? – How to mend it – The Worried Well – Relapse –
And I’ll illustrate a lot of my points with real-life stories.