Star Wards

Here are some great resources and ideas from the Star Wards world and beyond.

Acute care pathway

• Positive Outlook
  Positive Outlook - discharge planning
• Alex House Ground Floor Independent Route
• Alex House Justification for Independent Route
• Presentation by Paul Rooney about why acute inpatient care is still valuable
• pathway crib sheet W Midlands

Arts

Debt

Moneysavingexpert.com's mental health and debt guide

Directory for mental health and debt information 

Diversity

Inter-faith and international calendar

Communicating with deaf patients

Family, friends, carers and visitors

• Family Visiting - Safeguarding Children Derbyshire
• Triangle of Care

Information for patients

Tower Hamlets' welcome pack

Montpellier Secure Unit patient information

Internet

• Protocol for the use of the Internet access and compute
  

  Really useful information on internet access for acute wards, from Croydon Acute Wards, Alex Ground Floor, Royal Bethlem Hospital

• Internet access policy - Wotton Lawn Hospital
• Patient internet access form - Wotton Lawn hospital
• Patient Internet Access Form 2gether

Medication

• Talking about medicines
  

  The management of medicines in trusts providing mental health services

• Medication Information Project
  

  Meeting information needs of psychiatric inpatients: Staff and patient perspectives.

• Medication Information project (2)
  

  Meeting information needs of psychiatric inpatients at Shelton Hospital

• Taking medicines and how to carry on taking them
  

  GCD Family Facts Series

• Self Medicating Policy
  

  Policy and Procedure for In-Patient Self Administration of Medicines - West Sussex

• Alex House Protected Medication Time Poster
• Self med presentation Sandpiper ward
• SELF MEDICATION PROPSAL Sandpiper ward

National Context

Occupational therapy

• OT leaflet from Derbyshire

Older patients

Royal College of Psychiatrists' good practice paper April 2011

Patient activities and engagement

Group Timetable Ward 4 and 5 Adult Acute Care Peterborough

• Wotton Lawn: Art-Lift
  Special arts project
• STEPS Handbook
  STEPS handbook - constructive patient engagement
• Richmond Borough Lavender ‘n’ Mind Service Evaluation Report
  Short-term recreation project delivered by a local MIND group
• Anti boredom strategy for acute in patients: A model for inpatient care on the Cedars Unit, from an Occupational Therapy perspective
• Wii poster
• 3DTV - using TV as a stimulus for conversation and activities with patients who have learning disabilites or dementia.

Pets

• Pet farm at old people's home
• How dogs help people with a range of mental illnesses
• Pets in hospitals
• Support dogs - like Buddy:
•     Buddy's description of being marion's support dog
•     Called to Heal (Guardian article)
• The therapeutic benefits of the human animal relationship
• Behaving like animals (Transcript of Radio 4 programme)
• N E Lincs' Pets' Policy
• Camden & Islington's dogs' policy

Relational Security

DH's guide to relational security

DH's relational security explorer

Safety

       Missing patients workbook
• Anti-absconding intervention, ward manager handbook.  [Little editorial note from the gentle Star Wards' folk: City University's work is unsurpassed, but the A word is unfortunate.]
• Anti-absconding workbook. [Ditto].
• Learning From Each Other
  A guide to reducing the use of restraint and seclusion
• Seclusion Design
  Seclusion: factors to consider when designing and using a seclusion suite in a mental health hospital
• 7 Steps to Patient Safety in Mental Health
• Review of Open Doors in Acute In-patient Wards

Sensory experiences

The Sense of Calm - ideas for multi-sensory experiences on the ward

Sensory Connections - great website for information and resource ideas

Sensory rooms

Service quality

• Rowan Ward Audit Tool

Service user involvement

• Reward and Recognition
  The principles and practice of service user payment and reimbursement in health and social care. Or... a useful guide about the near impossibility of paying service users properly because of the stupid benefits rules
• Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys, User, Carer and Advocate Leadership Programme
• Rethink guide to service-user and carer involvement
• Service-user staff in mental health
• Peer support research findings
• Aberdeen guide to service user involvement

Specialist inpatient services

• Sussex Partnerships Older People’s Mental Health Services
• Deaf Services Activity Information

Staff development and support

• Gloucestershire Partnership: Knowledge and Skills Training Manual, In - Patient Health Care Assistants
• Reflective practice
• Staff morale diagramme

Staff roles

Therapeutic Liaison Worker - Evaluation Report 2011

Powerpoint of Leicestershire's TLC scheme

Structures, Systems, Protocols and Policies. Sounds a bit heavy but of course actually very useful.

• Implementation Of The Tidal Model At St Ann’s Hospital, Poole, Dorset
• Joint Therapeutic Working
  A quick and informal description of how a few small changes made a big difference on a 20 bed acute mental health unit in Sussex, through Joint Therapeutic Working
• Nursing Interventions for Protected Therapeutic Engagement Time on Alex House Ground Floor
• Protocol for Protected Therapeutic Engagement Time (PTET)
  From Alex House
• Essence of Care - A whole systems approach

Talking and creative therapies and therapeutic approaches

• 100 Fantastic CBT Ideas for Promoting Recovery in Acute Settings
  Fab Poster-sized chart from Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHT, inspired by Star Wards
  Download here
• INSUCH Evaluation of Project
• Complementary Therapies Policy 
• Fascinating account of innovative role of Ashby Ward's Therapeutic Liaison Worker
• Ashby Ward Therapeutic Liaison Worker role
• Refocusing
• Therapist self-disclosure. Excellent information and advice for all staff in therapeutic or caring relationship with patients.

TalkWell and communication

Talking with Acutely Psychotic People

Talking with very ill patients - Len Bowers.doc

Person Centred communication with learning disabled people

Communicating with a deaf person on the ward

Leicestershire Partnership Trust's evaluation of introducing TalkWell

Volunteers

Comprehensive set of information leaflets about all aspects of volunteering from Volunteering England

Willows' Hospital volunteer protocol

 Ward design and environment

• Laying the Foundations (official DH guidelines on inpatient units)
• COLOUR PALETTE PRES NOV 04 Derbyshire.ppt
• Impact of Colour Within Mental Health Environments Derbyshire
• Environmental and Therapeutic Issues in Psychiatric Hospital Design
• Using colour to enhance the caring environment

Ward rounds

Replacing ward rounds with consultant appointments

Websites

Stonefield House's website, produced by patients with OT support

Well-being

• Exercise Therapy – Gloucestershire Partnership NHS Trust
  The evidence base for health benefits of exercise therapy, which is available to mental health patients of Gloucestershire Partnership NHS Trust
• Relaxation Report
  An evaluation of relaxation techniques
• Adult Acute Inpatient Exercise Room protocols
• adult acute in patient exercise room referral form
• Adult acute in patient fitness room induction
• Adult acute in patient fitness room protocol
• Adult acute in patient pre exercise questionnaire
• Adult acute in patient weight training protocol
• Adult acute in patient weight training equipment induction
• DAMIG (Development of Activities for Male Inpatients Group) Newsletter
• Five Ways to Well-being Evidence