Critical conversations: developing a methodology for service user involvement in mental health nursing.

Aim: Recent policy initiatives have identified that service user involvement in the education, design and delivery of mental health services should be more evident. This paper will discuss a methodology that was developed to do this.

Method: A small study was designed and undertaken to explore the needs of service users and carers when becoming involved in mental health care.

Spirituality, illness and personal responsibility: the experience of Jordanian Muslim men with coronary artery disease.

Spiritual care is an aspect of nursing in many parts of the world; however, there is very little evidence of this in an Arab Muslim country. This qualitative study explores the meaning of spirituality as experienced by Jordanian Muslim men living with coronary artery disease. A hermeneutical phenomenological orientation was used to explore the experience of spirituality as lived by Arab Muslim men with coronary artery disease.

Ethical psychiatry in an uncertain world: conversations and parallel truths.

Psychiatric practice is often faced with complex situations that seem to pose serious moral dilemmas for practitioners. Methods for solving these dilemmas have included the development of more objective rules to guide the practitioner such as utilitarianism and deontology. A more modern variant on this objective model has been 'Principlism' where 4 mid level rules are used to help solve these complex problems.