By Helen Hewitt @helen_mhns Helen is a third-year mental health nursing student at Middlesex University, currently in the process of completing her extended essay which focuses on the challenge of maintaining therapeutic relationships while delivering care within eating disorder settings. It is concerning to see someone that we care for showing signs of an eating disorder.… Read More

By Bronwyn Evans @Green_Eyed_Bea 3rd-year Mental Health Nursing Student, Student Voice Leader, Nursing Ambassador and Ambassador leader for the School of Health and Education at Middlesex University Bronwyn recently returned from her ERASMUS+ placement in Odense, Denmark. Here she shares her learning and personal experiences, and encourages other student nurses to also apply to the… Read More

By Nina Thomas @ninathomasart Nina is a founding member of The Film Bunch – their mission is to improve access for deaf and hard of hearing people to mainstream short films, and a trustee at StageText, an organisation that aims to make theatre and culture accessible to D/deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people. A performance of… Read More

By Charlene Hales, Clinical Team Manager at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust I approached my supervisor a year ago during my appraisal to express my interest in prescribing as I wanted a new challenge. I liked the idea of implementing a full care plan, conducting assessments, formulating impressions/diagnoses and designing a treatment package that includes medication prescribing.… Read More

by Henry Akaluka, 3rd year BSc Mental Health Nursing Student and Student Voice Leader at Middlesex University Black history month has primarily been celebrated by revisiting the great works done by black people past and present. Notable black people like Malcolm X, Robert Nesta Marley, Martin Luther King jnr., Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks… Read More

Susan Cummins Community Matron for Physical Health  at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. @SusanMHMatron ‏ My workday starts around 8.15am On a typical day My morning clinics begin at 9 am so I prepare the clinical room ensuring I have all the required equipment – blood taking sets, set up the ECG machine and charge… Read More

By Anne Onille-ere, Staff Nurse at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust Next up in our NQN series, we have a reflective blog written by Anne, who qualified from Middlesex University last year and has kindly shared her preceptorship experience. I’m a 27-year-old newly qualified nurse, well not as new anymore as I’m coming up to a… Read More

By Joanne Ajiboye, Staff Nurse at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust @JowieOlori    Having studied Psychology at A-level and BSc, Joanne trained as a mental health nurse at Middlesex University and currently works for one of our partner trusts. Joanne has just completed her preceptorship and has kindly shared her experiences, as well as… Read More

by Ivan Ezquerra-Romano @drugsandmehub If you chose to jump out of an airplane, you would wear a parachute. If you chose to have safe sex, you would use condoms. If you chose to ride a horse, you would wear a riding hat. If you chose to consume drugs, what would you do to stay safe?… Read More

By Dr. Mark Gray Pro Vice-Chancellor & Director of Knowledge Transfer, Middlesex University. Is there an optimal level of mental health provision? It’s a question that has dogged the economics of mental health for many years, largely because while in other clinical settings differences in allocative outcome don’t cross boundaries from one setting to another… Read More