Blog
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blog posts
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14 Jul 2025
The everyday reality of acute in-patient care
This Blog looks at the every day experience of working in acute in-patient mental health units.
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28 Apr 2025
The need for ethical thinking when working with risk of suicide
This blog explores the complex nature of working with people who may be recurrently suicidal and present to mental health services in crisis. These situations create ethical tensions between safety and autonomy, and the ‘action/consequences model’ offers some food for thought.
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3 Mar 2025
Delivering culturally sensitive care
The RCN Mental Health Forum Dennis sub group hosted a listening event about culturally sensitive care. This blog discusses the event further.
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21 Feb 2025
Celebrating Mental Health Nurses' Day 2025
Back in 2019 the Royal College of Nursing’s Mental Health Forum was proud to launch Mental Health Nurses’ Day – a day that has now grown into a national movement. Six years on, it’s time once again to celebrate the work that this incredible profession does every day of the year.
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19 Mar 2024
Mental Health Nursing Psychosocial Interventions: what are they, and why do we need them?
Dr Stephen Jones introduces the RCN’s Psychosocial Interventions Programme which will launch in September 2024 as part of the RCN’s mental health programmes workstreams.
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6 Mar 2024
Supporting patients in mental health services to their right to vote
Mental health nurses have a critical role to play in supporting patients in mental health services to their right to vote, regardless of their legal status.
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28 Feb 2024
Gaslight
This blog has been submitted by a member who wishes to remain anonymous, for reasons that will become clear as you read it. Bullying is a common phenomenon for nurses, with around a quarter of the nursing family experiencing bullying in the past year. This blog highlights my personal experience of “gaslighting” - a specific type of bullying, and how I am gradually recovering from this.
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21 Feb 2024
Celebrating Mental Health Nurses’ Day
The Royal College of Nursing’s Mental Health Forum wants to acknowledge and thank all mental health nursing staff across the UK and beyond for everything they do to support the care, treatment, and recovery of people from all walks of life.
