Mental Health Nursing Special Interest Group

Learning in a time of COVID

(From Left to Right: Elisa McNeilly, Sylvia Gomanda, Matt Cunningham (September 2018 Mental Health Nursing Students), Warren Stewart (Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing)) Introduction During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, health and social care students of all kinds played a significant role in supporting the frontline NHS workforce. Students contributed to…

Role play in the Context of a Simulation to Support Learning and Teaching for Non-physical Restrictive Practices in Nursing.

Here, Jamie Komeh, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing considers simulated teaching and learning strategies in developing skills to consider the use of restrictive practice in nursing. Simulation has the capacity to provide greater opportunities to healthcare professionals and students to improve or enhance their knowledge and experience, and, subsequently, optimises delivery systems to improve…

Lacrimosa (CV-19 Quilt Patch)

(By Pauline Ridley for the CV-19 Quilt) My patch shows the opening notes of the Lacrimosa movement of Mozart’s Requiem. Why has that become my symbol of lockdown? A couple of years ago, after a lifetime of moaning about being unable to sing, I decided to take some lessons. I had no plans to sing…

Priory (CV-19 Quilt Patch)

[By Sharon de Goeas for The Covid Quilt project ] When the country went into lockdown on March 23rd, I had the idea that I would take a walk twice a day into the town. It was later announced that people could only take one hour of exercise once per day. In the first week…

What does mental health look like during the Covid-19 Lockdown? A new materialist understanding.

Laetitia Zeeman The understanding that health is more than the absence of disease and instead ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being’ (WHO 2006), has been comprehensively challenged as populations age and patterns of overlapping physical and mental frailty emerge (Matchtfeld 2011). However, when attempting to understand health, we recognise the limitations of…

Re-evaluating neo-liberal values in context of the corona virus crisis: greater justice for carers.

There is no escaping the devasting impact of the Covid-19 virus, yet something positive has emerged; it has caused the British public to review its thinking on the way we view and value our health and social care workers and services. We have finally taken notice of our reliance on our keyworkers, and what they…

COVID-19 Unprecedented Mental Health Nurse Education

We’re told to pack up tools and prepare to home work. IT gurus encourage us to get busy with Microsoft teams using blended approaches to introduce ever more online learning tools and tricks. We leave our desks at the University on March 20th equipped with ideas about live sessions online, student blogging and Twitter use,…