'Paperwork': Its implications for community mental health nurses' practice

This study aims to examine the real life documentary practices of community mental health nurses to enable a better understanding of the impact of paperwork on their nursing practice.The work on the research proposal was supported by the Community Psychiatric Nurses' Association. Data colleaction and analysis was supported through the University of Chester's small research grant scheme

Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover

Urbanization transforms environments in ways that alter biological evolution. We examined whether urban environmental change drives parallel evolution by sampling 110,019 white clover plants from 6169 populations in 160 cities globally. Plants were assayed for a Mendelian antiherbivore defense that also affects tolerance to abiotic stressors. Urban-rural gradients were associated with the evolution of clines in defense in 47% of cities throughout the world. Variation in the strength of clines was explained by environmental changes in drought stress and vegetation cover that varied among cities. Sequencing 2074 genomes from 26 cities revealed that the evolution of urban-rural clines was best explained by adaptive evolution, but the degree of parallel adaptation varied among cities. Our results demonstrate that urbanization leads to adaptation at a global scale

Legal and ethical matters

This book chapter is not available through ChesterRep.This book chapter aims to discuss how practitioners can work ethically and legally in the best interests of adult patients; explain the principal legal and ethical issues of health inequalities and discrimination, consent and capacity, and advanced care planning; and discuss the matter of self-neglect and capacity

Oncology in mental health practice

This book chapter is not available through ChesterRep.This book chapter aims to explain the relationships between mental health problems and cancer; explain the basics of cancer; discuss local cancer health policy and how it can act as guidance for supporting an individual; and explain how cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment can be tailored in relation to a person's mental ill-health

'I can't get a thing done' : an ethnography of acute mental health nursing

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The reality of teamwork in an acute mental health ward

Purpose: The study aims to explore the activities of mental health nurses in an acute inpatient ward. Teamwork emerged as one of several important matters for analysis. Design and Methods: Ethnography and data collection took place through participant observation. This included recording of naturally occurring talk. Findings: Three themes emerged: nurses' continuing attention to teamwork, the handover, and the team meeting. The vast potential of information to be communicated across the nursing team was observed to result in the use of summarizing practices. These appeared to mitigate nurses' ability to give sophisticated accounts of their evident expertise in multidisciplinary meetings. Practice Implications: Nurses should be challenged to articulate their interventions and display their work within the acute mental health setting

Editorial. Mental health nursing role models : what is valued?

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Creating Original Research Between Faculty and Higher Degree Research Students

Working alongside higher degree students as they create original work is one of the joys of academic life. To take on the supervision of the student's research apprenticeship can be a rewarding challenge that may lead to future fruitful endeavours. With emphasis on PhD and Professional Doctorate programs, in this brief paper, we consider how to produce high quality research within such partnerships whilst avoiding an 'assembly line' approach to undertaking higher degree research

Mental Health Nursing Role Models: What Is Valued?

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Creating original research between faculty and higher degree research students

Working alongside higher degree students as they create original work is one of the joys of academic life. To take on the supervision of the student's research apprenticeship can be a rewarding challenge that may lead to future fruitful endeavours. With emphasis on PhD and Professional Doctorate programs, in this brief paper, we consider how to produce high quality research within such partnerships whilst avoiding an 'assembly line' approach to undertaking higher degree research