Browsing Hospital Ward by Subject "Mental Health Services"
Now showing items 1-6 of 6
-
Acute mental health nurses’ experience of forcibly touching service users during physical restraint
(2020-10)Mental health nurses use forcible touch during physical restraint. Little research considers nurses’ experiences and the meanings they give to forcible touch. This study investigated nurses’ lived experiences of forcibly ... -
The development of supported mental health accommodation and community psychiatric nursing in Oxfordshire
(2022-11)Overcrowding in British mental hospitals was a major service and political concern when the NHS was introduced in 1948. From 1959, a number of projects were initiated locally in Oxfordshire, based from Littlemore Hospital ... -
Happenstance and regulatory culture: the evolution of innovative community mental health services in Oxfordshire in the late twentieth century
(2022-12)This paper uses co-produced historical material to explore the evolution of two innovative mental healthcare institutions that emerged in Oxfordshire in the 1960s. We highlight how the trajectories of both institutions ... -
Length of hospitalisation for people with severe mental illness: is the longer the better? Commentary on… Cochrane Corner
(2021)The Cochrane review in this month’s Cochrane Corner (Babalola 2014) compares short-stay hospital admission to long-stay/standard admission in patients with severe mental illness for a number of outcomes in a total 2030 ... -
Mental healthcare clinician engagement with point of care testing; a qualitative study
(2021-02)Background Point of Care Testing (POCT) is being increasingly used to augment the delivery of physical health care in a variety of settings, but their use in mental health has been limited. Research into understanding the ... -
Systematic review of interventions to improve constant observation on adult inpatient psychiatric wards
(2020-02)Constant observation is frequently conducted on inpatient psychiatric units to manage patients at risk of harming themselves or others. Despite its widespread use, there is little evidence of the efficacy of the practice ...
