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The BJN inform newsletter (30th July 2024)
Welcome to the July issue of the BJN inform newsletter.
New to the platform? BJN inform is a mentor-in-your pocket digital resource for nurses, nurse associates and nursing students, providing you with easy-access articles on topics across clinical areas, person-centred care, career and nurse wellbeing.
For this issue of the newsletter, we’re taking a look at the most recent spotlight articles around postpartum psychosis, urinary catheterisation, patient advocacy and more.
Postpartum psychosis
Postpartum psychosis is a serious mental illness and psychiatric emergency. In this clinical article, Katie Loader (clinical nurse specialist at the crisis resolution and home treatment team, Hellesdon Hospital) provides an overview of the definition, symptoms, aetiology, diagnosis and treatment for postpartum psychosis.
Adjustment disorder
In another clinical mental health article, Katie Loader outlines the characteristics of the seventh most common psychiatric diagnosis – adjustment disorder. Despite its prevalence, adjustment disorder is one of the most under-researched areas of mental health care, so this article provides a much-needed overview of the condition, its diagnosis and treatment.
Note: This is free to access, only for this month!
Patient advocacy: definitions and challenges
In their latest My Career article, Peter and Hannah Ellis discuss the complex role of acting as a patient advocate. The article provides multiple definitions of patient advocacy, looking at what this means within person-centred care and the challenges that nurses may encounter when delivering this.
Read the reflective exercise and consider how you could be a patient advocate for Rita, who is apprehensive about having the COVID-19 vaccine.
Urinary catheterisation
This procedure article by Anne Yates, Director of Continence Services at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, takes the reader through the steps of inserting a urinary catheter for both male and female patients.
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