School nurses manage medications, provide first aid and care for students with chronic illnesses like diabetes, asthma and life-threatening allergies. They also play a critical role in supporting ...

A state Senate committee advanced a measure that would allow doctors to prescribe appropriate meds to patients with mental ...

Staffing and certain compliance issues related to updated survey guidance coming in late March, particularly those that relate to patient discharges as ...

Find out more about the winner and shortlisted entries in the Nursing in Mental Health category at the 2024 Nursing Times Awards. The winners of the 2024 Nursing Times Awards were announced at a ...

Palms West is not a Baker Act-receiving facility, yet the man now charged with attempted murder was under the mental health hold.

A first-of-its-kind study provides a snapshot of the substantial mental health burden on nurses around the world. Published in the journal International Nursing Review, the research documents the ...

Learn about the movement to destigmatize mental health among healthcare providers as the National Council of State Boards of Nursing works on recommendations ...

Learn about the growing movement to improve physician mental health care and remove fear of punishment, as 29 states and 375 hospitals update licensure forms.

Young women have been telling their stories of years spent on a Scottish adolescent psychiatric ward. Skye House, in Glasgow, is a place supposed to make them better, but which they say failed ...

Two nurses at a psychiatric hospital were left fearing death during an attack by a patient who warned them "I'm willing to go to jail for murder, it's worth it". The women were attacked by William ...

Chinese officials are increasingly medicating “troublemakers” and forcing them into psychiatric hospitals to silence dissenters, an investigation has revealed. Citizens who openly protest or ...

Zhang Junjie held up a blank piece of paper to symbolise censorship and was sent to psychiatric hospital When Zhang Junjie was 17 he decided to protest outside his university about rules made by ...