Art engagement and mental health: experiences of service users of a community-based arts programme at Tate Modern, London.

Objectives: To examine the experiences of mental health service users who took part in an arts-based programme at Tate Modern, a major London art gallery.

Study Design: Exploratory qualitative design.

Methods: Data were collected using in-depth semi-structured interviews with 10 mental health service users who had taken part in a community-based programme at Tate Modern.

Immersive simulated reality scenarios for enhancing students' experience of people with learning disabilities across all fields of nurse education.

Poor preparation of nurses, regarding learning disabilities can have devastating consequences. High-profile reports and the Nursing and Midwifery Council requirements led this University to introduce Shareville into the undergraduate and postgraduate nursing curriculum. Shareville is a virtual environment developed at Birmingham City University, in which student nurses learn from realistic, problem-based scenarios featuring people with learning disabilities.

A methodological study to compare survey-based and observation-based evaluations of organisational and safety cultures and then compare both approaches with markers of the quality of care.

Background: Patient safety concerns have focused attention on organisational and safety cultures, in turn directing attention to the measurement of organisational and safety climates.

Objectives: First, to compare levels of agreement between survey- and observation-based measures of organisational and safety climates/cultures and to compare both measures with criterion-based audits of the quality of care, using evidence-based markers drawn from national care standards relating to six common clinical conditions. (This required development of an observation-based instrument.

Supporting patient safety: examining communication within delivery suite teams through contrasting approaches to research observation.

Objective: to explore the nature of intra- and interprofessional communication on delivery suites, with a particular focus on patient safety.

Design: longitudinal study using contrasting forms of observation: ethnographic methods alongside the highly structured Interaction Process Analysis (IPA) framework.

Setting: four contrasting delivery suites offering different models of care and serving different populations: two in the north of England and two in London.

Twenty-four hour care: implications for the role and developmental needs of nurses in acute and community settings.

Aim(s): The aim of this study was to explore the challenges of providing continuity within the 24-hour nursing service. It explored why nurses work at night and what issues this raises for them.

Background: The manner in which new ways of working affect the work or CPD (Continuing Professional Development) requirements of ward-based nurses or their community counterparts has received little attention.