Mental Health Nurse Prescribing: Challenges in Theory and Practice

This article addresses the historical context of mental health nursing and its relationship to nurse prescribing.; examines some of the theoretical and philosophical forces that have molded modern mental health nursing, discussing the tensions between the medical model and the psychosocial models favoured by many mental health nurse academics and practitioners over the last forty years; and finally discusses the issues and challenges around commencing prescribing in practice, especially when nurse prescribing is not integral to the practitioner’s role. The article intends to examine the theoretical basis for mental health nurse prescribing, to discuss some of the theoretical tensions which are implicit; and describes briefly the author’s own experience as a recently qualified nurse prescriber

Diurnal and Seasonal Activity of Female Mutillids on a Michigan Sand Flat (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae)

Diurnal activity of mutillid females of a southwestern Michigan sand area was characterized in relation to sand surface temperature conditions. Seasonal abundance patterns weredetermined for four Dasymutilla species

Lagrangian spheres in Del Pezzo surfaces

Lagrangian spheres in the symplectic Del Pezzo surfaces arising as blow-ups of the complex projective plane in 4 or fewer points are classified up to Lagrangian isotopy. Unlike the case of the 5-point blow-up, there is no Lagrangian knotting.Comment: 48 pages, 2 figures; referee's corrections and suggestions incorporated

The infimum of the Nijenhuis energy

We prove that on any symplectic manifold whose symplectic form represents a rational cohomology class there exists a sequence of compatible almost complex structures whose Nijenhuis energy (the $L^2$-norm of the Nijenhuis tensor) tends to zero. The sequence is obtained by stretching the neck around a Donaldson hypersurface.Comment: 6 pages; updated with minor corrections to agree with published versio