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A grounded theory longitudinal study of carers' experiences of caring for people with dementia (2012)
Journal Article
Lin, M., Macmillan, M., & Brown, N. (2012). A grounded theory longitudinal study of carers' experiences of caring for people with dementia. Dementia, 11, 181-197. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301211421362

Introduction Increasingly the provision of care for older people with dementia has shifted from institutions to the community. This has resulted in an increase in burden and a reduction in autonomy for those who care for these individuals. Aims... Read More about A grounded theory longitudinal study of carers' experiences of caring for people with dementia.

Personality disorder and mental health in the perinatal period. (2012)
Book Chapter
Hollins Martin, C. J. (2012). Personality disorder and mental health in the perinatal period. In C. R. Martin (Ed.), Perinatal Mental Health: a clinical guide (43-57). M & K Update

The act of giving birth has the capacity to precipitate extreme emotional reactions in some women, with parturition shown to be a risk factor for developing psychiatric illness (Brockington, 1996; Paradice, 2002). Statistically 1–20 per cent of all n... Read More about Personality disorder and mental health in the perinatal period..

Partners at the birth. (2012)
Book Chapter
Hollins Martin, C. J. (2012). Partners at the birth. In C. R. Martin (Ed.), Perinatal Mental Health: a clinical guide. M & K Update

Contemporary Western culture incorporates a belief that fathers should attend the birth of their child, but is this always a healthy assumption to make? There has been an increasing trend in the West for fathers to be present during childbirth (David... Read More about Partners at the birth..

Conformity and obedience among midwives. (2012)
Book Chapter
Hollins Martin, C. J. (2012). Conformity and obedience among midwives. In C. R. Martin (Ed.), Perinatal Mental Health: a clinical guide (249-261). M & K Updates

The literature on obedience emphasises that legitimate authority is a powerful and compelling force. This is particularly evident in Milgram’s experiments (1963, 1974) in which participants systematically shocked a helpless victim at the bidding of a... Read More about Conformity and obedience among midwives..

Study of the implmentation of a new community health nurse role in Scotland. (2012)
Report
Elliott, L., Rome, A., Cameron, S., Currie, M., Pow, J. S., & Mackenzie-Baker, M. (2012). Study of the implmentation of a new community health nurse role in Scotland. Edinburgh, Scotland: Scottish Government

In 2006 the Scottish Executive began a radical and far reaching Review of Nursing in the Community (RONIC). This review proposed the absorption of district nursing, health visiting, school nursing and family health nursing into a single community hea... Read More about Study of the implmentation of a new community health nurse role in Scotland..

Drugs, drink and mental health: The impact and consequences of dual diagnosis for mental health service delivery (2012)
Book Chapter
Hughes, L., & Phillips, P. (2012). Drugs, drink and mental health: The impact and consequences of dual diagnosis for mental health service delivery. In P. Phillips, T. Sandford, & C. Johnston (Eds.), Working in Mental Health: Practice and Policy in a Chan

Mental health service users with co-morbid alcohol and/or drug use problems (which will be referred to as ‘dual diagnosis’) have presented one of the most significant challenges to British and international mental health and wider health and social c... Read More about Drugs, drink and mental health: The impact and consequences of dual diagnosis for mental health service delivery.

Concordance in Action: Training Needs Analysis (2012)
Journal Article
Snowden, A., Gilfedder, M., Ferries, E., Bartling, L., & Barron, D. T. (2012). Concordance in Action: Training Needs Analysis. British Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 1(1), 13-18. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2012.1.1.13

This is the first of two articles examining the role and function of concordance in clinical medicine management. It records the development of a questionnaire designed to help facilitate a training needs analysis for registered mental health nurses.... Read More about Concordance in Action: Training Needs Analysis.

A centralised respiratory diagnostic service for primary care: a 4-year audit (2012)
Journal Article
Starren, E. S., Roberts, N. J., Tahir, M., O'Byrne, L., Haffenden, R., Patel, I. S., & Partridge, M. R. (2012). A centralised respiratory diagnostic service for primary care: a 4-year audit. Primary Care Respiratory Journal, 21(2), 180-186. https://doi.or

Background: The literature shows that delayed or erroneous diagnosis of respiratory conditions may be common in primary care due to underuse of spirometry or poor spirometric technique. The Community Respiratory Assessment Unit (CRAU) was establishe... Read More about A centralised respiratory diagnostic service for primary care: a 4-year audit.

A serial qualitative interview study of infant feeding experiences: idealism meets realism (2012)
Journal Article
Hoddinott, P., Craig, L. C. A., Britten, J., & McInnes, R. M. (2012). A serial qualitative interview study of infant feeding experiences: idealism meets realism. BMJ Open, 2(2), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2011-000504

Objective: To investigate the infant feeding experiences of women and their significant others from pregnancy until 6 months after birth to establish what would make a difference. Design: Qualitative serial interview study. Setting: Two health boards... Read More about A serial qualitative interview study of infant feeding experiences: idealism meets realism.

Concordance in action: towards systematic individualized care (2012)
Journal Article
Snowden, A., Gilfedder, M., & Campbell, P. A. (2012). Concordance in action: towards systematic individualized care. Nurse Prescribing, 10(3), 141-146. https://doi.org/10.12968/npre.2012.10.3.141

This article describes the construction and impact of an education module designed to improve medicine management in mental health nursing. In particular, it justifies the need for such education and illustrates the impact that it can have on knowled... Read More about Concordance in action: towards systematic individualized care.

Shift Recording in Residential Child Care (2012)
Journal Article
Hardy, M. (2012). Shift Recording in Residential Child Care. Ethics and Social Welfare, 6(1), 88-96. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496535.2012.651894

Recording is a task often perceived by residential child care workers as boring or taking time away from the ‘real work’, direct engagement with young people. It is required by legislation and policy but has been undertheorized and treated as a techn... Read More about Shift Recording in Residential Child Care.

From classical psychodynamics to evidence synthesis: the motif of repression and a contemporary understanding of a key mediatory mechanism in psychosis (2012)
Journal Article
Fleming, M. P., & Martin, C. R. (2012). From classical psychodynamics to evidence synthesis: the motif of repression and a contemporary understanding of a key mediatory mechanism in psychosis. Current psychiatry reports, 14(3), 252-258. https://doi.org/10

The stress vulnerability model has proven to be a politically important model for two reasons. It has provided the framework that defines a temporal and dynamic process whereby a person’s uniquely determined biopsychosocial vulnerability to schizophr... Read More about From classical psychodynamics to evidence synthesis: the motif of repression and a contemporary understanding of a key mediatory mechanism in psychosis.

'Acute concerns': Is the mental health workforce equipped and supported to meet complex needs? (2012)
Journal Article
Hughes, E., Brown, Y., & Tummey, R. (2012). 'Acute concerns': Is the mental health workforce equipped and supported to meet complex needs?. Advances in dual diagnosis, 5(1), 15-22. https://doi.org/10.1108/17570971211225136

Purpose The focus of this paper is to consider the findings of a survey, which aims to identify the types of training that acute mental health staff could access, in relation to workforce development and substance misuse issues in acute mental healt... Read More about 'Acute concerns': Is the mental health workforce equipped and supported to meet complex needs?.

Online video in clinical skills education of oral medication administration for undergraduate student nurses: A mixed methods, prospective cohort study (2012)
Journal Article
Holland, A., Smith, F. C., McCrossan, G., Adamson, E., Watt, S., & Penny, K. I. (2013). Online video in clinical skills education of oral medication administration for undergraduate student nurses: A mixed methods, prospective cohort study. Nurse Education Today, 33(6), 663-670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2012.01.006

Background Improvements in the safety of the prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines are identified as a priority across international healthcare systems. It is therefore essential that higher education institutions play their part i... Read More about Online video in clinical skills education of oral medication administration for undergraduate student nurses: A mixed methods, prospective cohort study.

Clinical and physical signs for identification of impending and current water-loss dehydration in older people (2012)
Other
Chassagne, P., Olde Rikkert, M. G., Hunter, P. R., Hooper, L., Attreed, N. J., Campbell, W. W., …Hunter, P. R. (2012). Clinical and physical signs for identification of impending and current water-loss dehydration in older people

This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: .To determine the diagnostic accuracy of state, minimally invasive clinical and physical signs (or sets of signs) to be used as screening tests for detecting... Read More about Clinical and physical signs for identification of impending and current water-loss dehydration in older people.