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Mental health deserves better: resisting the dilution of specialist pre-registration mental health nurse education in the United Kingdom. (2023)
Journal Article
WARRENDER, D., CONNELL, C., JONES, E., MONTEUX, S., COLWELL, L., LAKER, C. and CROMAR-HAYES, M. 2023. Mental health deserves better: resisting the dilution of specialist pre-registration mental health nurse education in the United Kingdom. International journal of mental health nursing [online], Early View. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.13236

This article aims to draw attention to increasing genericism in nurse education in the United Kingdom, which sees less specialist mental health education for mental health nursing students and offers opposition to such direction. In 2018, the Nursing... Read More about Mental health deserves better: resisting the dilution of specialist pre-registration mental health nurse education in the United Kingdom..

Mental health nurse education: a contemporary view in the debate between generic and specialist approaches. (2023)
Journal Article
WARRENDER, D., RAMSAY, M. and HURLEY, J. 2023. Mental health nurse education: a contemporary view in the debate between generic and specialist approaches. Mental health practice [online], 26(5), e1663. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7748/mhp.2023.e1663

Many mental health nurses and academics believe that the Nursing and Midwifery Council's standards of proficiency for registered nurses, published in 2018, have negatively affected mental health nurse education in the UK. Serious concerns had been ra... Read More about Mental health nurse education: a contemporary view in the debate between generic and specialist approaches..

Responses and referral. (2023)
Book Chapter
MACPHERSON, S. and WARRENDER, D. 2023. Responses and referral. In Cooper, D.B. (ed.) Alcohol use: assessment, withdrawal management, treatment and therapy: ethical practice. Cham: Springer [online], chapter 9, pages 151-163. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18381-2_9

This chapter is aimed at practitioners who may not have specialist knowledge of how to respond to people who have problems with alcohol and identifies helpful responses and options for referral. The context of alcohol as a mainstay of many cultures i... Read More about Responses and referral..

Reflecting on professional self-disclosure and supportive relationships with foster carers during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2023)
Journal Article
ARCHARD, P.J., MOORE, I., O'REILLY, M., MAJUMDER, P., WARRENDER, D., ADKINS, T. and TILBURY, E. 2023. Reflecting on professional self-disclosure and supportive relationships with foster carers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mental health practice [online], 26(2). Available from: https://doi.org/10.7748/mhp.2023.e1623

Professional self-disclosure can be defined as a clinician revealing personal information about themselves to the person they are caring for. This article provides reflections from clinicians working in child and adolescent mental health services (CA... Read More about Reflecting on professional self-disclosure and supportive relationships with foster carers during the COVID-19 pandemic..

I am hiding a ludicrous truth from future mental health nursing students. (2022)
Journal Article
WARRENDER, D. 2022. I am hiding a ludicrous truth from future mental health nursing students. Nursing times [online], 118(12), pages 17. Available from: https://www.nursingtimes.net/digital-edition/nursing-times-december-2022/

In 2018, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) published standards for pre-registration nursing programmes (NMC, 2018), shaped by its 'Future Nurse' standards for nurse proficiency. Prior to implementation, the Mental Health Nurse Academics UK (MHN... Read More about I am hiding a ludicrous truth from future mental health nursing students..

Though noble, NMC’s standards are an assault on mental health nursing. (2022)
Journal Article
WARRENDER, D. 2022. Though noble, NMC's standards are an assault on mental health nursing. Mental health practice [online], 25(6), pages 5. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7748/mhp.25.6.5.s1

The Nursing and Midwifery Council's (NMC) Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses have noble aims and yet their impact has been an assault on mental health nursing as a specialism. Outnumbered in the profession as a whole, mental health nursin... Read More about Though noble, NMC’s standards are an assault on mental health nursing..

Ghost or phoenix: the disappearance or rise of mental health nursing? (2022)
Presentation / Conference
WARRENDER, D. 2022. Ghost or phoenix: the disappearance or rise of mental health nursing? Presented at 28th International mental health nursing research conference 2022: mental health nursing in challenging times, 8-9 September 2022, Oxford, UK.

Dan is a mental health nurse, lecturer and mentalization based treatment practitioner, and is currently undertaking a PhD exploring experiences of crisis intervention for people diagnosed with 'borderline personality disorder'. He is a member of the... Read More about Ghost or phoenix: the disappearance or rise of mental health nursing?.

Concerns over the prescription of clozapine for people diagnosed with “borderline personality disorder” in private locked psychiatric units. (2022)
Journal Article
HARDING, K., WARRENDER, D. and BERRIGAN, H. 2022. Concerns over the prescription of clozapine for people diagnosed with 'borderline personality disorder' in private locked psychiatric units. Mental health review journal [online], 27(3), pages 348-354. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/MHRJ-03-2022-0017

Purpose: The use of long-term anti-psychotic medication for borderline personality disorder contravenes prescribing guidelines in the UK. There is evidence to suggest clozapine can be beneficial yet anecdotally it is prescribed almost exclusively in... Read More about Concerns over the prescription of clozapine for people diagnosed with “borderline personality disorder” in private locked psychiatric units..

Mental health nursing and the theory‐practice gap: civil war and intellectual self‐injury. (2021)
Journal Article
WARRENDER, D. 2022. Mental health nursing and the theory-practice gap: civil war and intellectual self-injury. Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing [online], 29(2), pages 171-173. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.12808

Mental health nursing students experience education from both academic institutions and on clinical placements, yet there often remains a divide in understandings and attitudes between the two. This editorial provides personal and professional comme... Read More about Mental health nursing and the theory‐practice gap: civil war and intellectual self‐injury..

A profession confined: the identity crisis of mental health nursing. [Blog post] (2021)
Digital Artefact
WARRENDER, D. 2021. A profession confined: the identity crisis of mental health nursing. [Blog post]. Posted on CEMH Human Rights and Mental Health [online], 9 September 2021. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/yf835nph

Mental health nursing is a profession which is confined both between disciplines, and within nursing itself. Mental health care is often set up around psychiatrist-led diagnoses and medically-focused treatments such as medication, which can be compu... Read More about A profession confined: the identity crisis of mental health nursing. [Blog post].