This RLO is part of the Our care through our eyes (OCTOE), series of resources. This resource will equip registered children's nurses, student nurses and other health professionals with information about how to assess and manage risk with children and young people admitted to children's wards with self-harm.

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Release Date: 25 November 2016

This RLO looks at people with dementia who experience difficulties in both understanding others and saying what they want to say. This usually progresses as the disease progresses. This RLO looks at problems people with dementia experience when communicating and strategies healthcare professionals can use to improve their communication.

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Release Date: 04 September 2015

This RLO is part of the Our care through our eyes (OCTOE), series of resources. This RLO will equip registered children's nurses, student nurses and other health professionals with communication skills and strategies to improve care for children and young people who are admitted to hospital following an incident of self-harm.

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Release Date: 25 November 2016

The Ideal Ward Round is a participatory action research (PAR) project in the field of quality improvement. The key project aims were: - to establish the views of patients, carers and professionals on the role, experience of and ways of improving ward rounds in the context of acute adult in-patient mental health services within one NHS Trust in England, and - to develop suitable recommendations that would lead to improvement in ward round functionality and experience for all parties, particularly patients This reusable learning object will enable you to think about how the recommendations of this project could influence your practice along with making changes to the structures and processes underpinning decision making in your practice area.

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Release Date: 02 October 2018

This RLO describes practical measures to build exercise into your daily routine. Part of the PAVE (Physical Activity Virtual Education) project.

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Release Date: 12 November 2009

This RLO outlines the importance physical and mental health benefits to the individual of physical exercise. The second RLO in this series describes practical measures to build exercise into your daily routine. Part of the PAVE (Physical Activity Virtual Education) project.

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Release Date: 23 September 2009

The aim of this resource is to explore the concept of Sexual Safety from the perspective of women who have accessed mental services in order to unpack and to develop a greater understanding of this multi-faceted phenomenon. In this resource we will also hear from a number of professionals who work with women who have accessed mental health care.

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Release Date: 02 March 2020

This resource explores what a shared decision making model might need to look like in mental health settings if there was acknowledgement of hierarchies and the effects of power in the decision making process in mental health care. Whilst it is important for professional groups to maintain their professional identities in healthcare settings, they might also need to consider the importance of talking about these identities within multidisciplinary groups and acknowledge uncertainties of role and identity when the power to decide is shared amongst professional groups, service users and carers (I am not sure we address this in the resource – we could say the resource is based on a piece of research which looked at this). It is suggested that the concept of shared decision making should be broken down into its component parts to specify the “core conditions” for a shared decision to take place. We suggest that in order for this, to occur, all participants must be Informed, Involved and Influential (the three I’s) in the decision making process. However, the three “I”s of shared decision making are fluid, they refer to a sliding scale of influence that moves between these different positions depending on context, capacity and desire to influence. This RLO considers some of the challenges to shared decision making and how these may be overcome

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Release Date: 02 October 2018

This resource is part of the Our care through our eyes (OCTOE), series. This RLO will equip registered children's nurses, student nurses and other health professionals with knowledge of self-harm in children and young people who have been admitted to hospital. The RLO will also cover the care pathways of children and young people who self-harm.

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Release Date: 25 November 2016

A co-production learning resource which has used an arts based narrative approach to explore the experiences of older women who are survivors of domestic violence and abuse. The resource is open access and aims to reach a wide professional audience including those working in health and social care environments.

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Release Date: 11 July 2016