The Schwartz Centre Rounds: Supporting mental health workers with the emotional impact of their work.

In healthcare settings, there is an emotional cost to caring which can result in compassion fatigue, burnout, secondary trauma, and compromised patient care. Innovative workplace interventions such as the Schwartz Rounds offer a group reflective practice forum for clinical and non-clinical professionals to reflect on the emotional aspects of working in health care. Whilst the Rounds are established in medical health practice, this study presents an evaluation of the Rounds offered to mental health services.

Recruitment of south Asian carers into a survey-based research study.

Because of challenges involved in recruitment, little research has focused on care needs of minority ethnic groups. This article reports on a study that recruited 186 British south Asian carers of people with dementia. Four obstacles were faced: language barriers, confusion over research, feelings of shame/stigma, and mistrust.

SmartRoads: training Indonesian workers to become road safety ambassadors in industrial and community settings.

This paper reports on a programme to improve road safety awareness in an industrial community in the vicinity of Jakarta, in Indonesia. Adapting the model of a successful community and school-based programme in Victoria, in Australia, and using a peer education approach, 16 employees of a major manufacturing company were trained to implement road safety education programmes amongst their peers. Specific target groups for the educators were colleagues, schools and the local community.

Positive benefits of seclusion.

I am writing to support Walter Brennan's argument that seclusion can have positive benefits for patients I ('Alone again, naturally', Nursing Standard November 6) following the Senior Nurse Advisor Brian Topping Morris' letter (Nursing Standard, December 4).