Star Wards

Here are 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

Family, friends, carers and visitors

• Family Visiting - Safeguarding Children Derbyshire

Information for patients

Tower Hamlets' welcome pack

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

Occupational therapy

• OT leaflet from Derbyshire

Patient activities and engagement

• 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

Pets

• Pet farm at old people's home
• Pets in hospitals

Safety

• 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

Sensory experiences

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, as Marion puts it: ‘ 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
• Service-user staff in mental health
• Peer support research findings

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

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
  

TalkWell and communication

Talking with Acutely Psychotic People

Article by Len Bowers about Talking with Acutely Psychotic People

Talking with very ill patients - Len Bowers.doc

Person Centred communication with learning disabled people

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

Ward design and environment

• Acute Solutions Physical Environment Derbyshire.ppt
• COLOUR PALETTE PRES NOV 04 Derbyshire.ppt
• Impact of Colour Within Mental Health Environments Derbyshire