Author: oldschoolmentalnurse@outlook.com
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Baselines
If you’re going to last in this job, you have to accept there are some things you cannot change. a) it’s inevitable that some patients will top themselves, b) that some patients have symptoms (both positive and negative) that will never improve, resolve or remit. (*) Which means they are never going to get better…
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Conditionality and responsibilities
Applying the sick role There’s an unfashionable (at least it is until I become Emperor) sociological theory about ‘the sick role.’ In short, Talcott Parsons posited illness was social (as well as biological). Ill people cannot perform their normal social roles, e.g. work, family. Parsons argued that if too many people claimed to be ill…
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What the Calocane report left out Part 3
Moving on from the least restrictive diktat we come to 2. Insight.
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What the Calocane enquiry left out: part 2
The national policy of ‘Least restrictive practice’ puts everyone but the most dangerous patients at greater risk. Fact. You were doing well, Neil until the last paragraph. I’ll explain where you went wrong. The ground floor professionals, who’ll have been community nurses, RMNs, do not have the power to insist on forcing a depot. I…
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What the Calocane enquiry left out. Part I (of 3)
The national policy of ‘Least restrictive practice’ puts everyone but the most dangerous patients at greater risk. Fact. I’ve been reading the Calocane report, otherwise known the Independent Mental Health Homicide Review into the care and treatment of Valdo Calocane. Theemis Consulting investigated and wrote the report (*). NHS England published it in full, eventually, after…