Category: Community mental nursing
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There aren’t anywhere near enough inpatient psychiatric beds in the UK. Pt 4.
In Pt 3 The Prof was saying Britain hasn’t yet exhausted all potential alternative strategies to admission. As far as her own list of ‘potential strategies’ goes, er, it’s a bit thin on the ground. There are two. One of them – a crisis house – is not a viable model to replace acute wards.…
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There aren’t anywhere near enough inpatient psychiatric beds in the UK. Pt 3.
If you remember, in Pt 2 I was correcting Prof Jonson’s use of weasel words when kitchen sinking inpatient wards for falling short of perfection. *) Weasel words example 2 = ‘…addressing the major problems associated with severe mental illness.’ Severe mental illness. Is that all? Severe mental illness includes MDD, BPAD, the schizophreniform disorders…
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There aren’t anywhere near enough inpatient psychiatric beds in the UK. Pt 2.
Moving on to Prof Johnson’s second idea to debunk is ‘that community care policies result in high levels of antisocial behaviour and failure to sustain community living.’ High is an elastic term if you don’t provide a scale and ‘failure to sustain’ can mean absolutely anything. If a community patient doesn’t achieve a Masters in…
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How to get there from here 3. Protection Pt 2.
Some suggestions for drastic changes in the law. 1. Instant, compulsory, guaranteed life in prison (*c) sentence for any murder of a community staff. I don’t include inpatient staff in this, only because sectioned patients are harder to send to prison and other disposals are available. 37/41 at minimum IMHO. *c) Oh, alright, I suppose…
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How to get there from here 3. Protection Pt 1
Objective. To change mental nursing from a job staff don’t enjoy, feel they were tricked into and can’t wait to escape from into one they do enjoy and intend to stay in because they’re now confident they have the support, freedom and trust to do their jobs properly. To get from here to there, Britain…
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‘How to get there from here Pt 2. Leadership & training’
Leadership. I once worked a community job where there were reams of managers, virtually all female, all promoted into newly invented posts where they did nothing of value, (*) attended heaps of meetings, pretended they were busy doing ‘clinical governance’ and other b/s non-words, drank coffee and wrote buckets of reports packed with gobbledegook. When…