Their Mind in Your Hands

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Their Mind in Your Hands

• Karen Wright
• Ivan McGlen

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Research is

• Anoraky??
• Nerdy??
• Dusty
• Dull?? Laborious??
• Not respected by real nurses??

• OR
• EXCITING
• MOTIVATING
• EMPOWERING
• SUBVERSIVE
• CHALLENGING CURRENT DOGMA
• FUN
• CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!

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The Inspiration

• Corridor conversation
• Mutual interests
• Transferable knowledge and skills
• IPL agenda
• Thinking together/Working together
• Generation and convergence
• Idealised thinking

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The perspiration

• Body of evidence
• Piles and piles of papers, (lit reviewing)
• Talking to colleagues/ contacts/thrashing out the
  idea
• Review, review, review

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The research process

• whatever the type of research carried out or
  approaches used, the research process invariably
  consists of three main components
• - the identification of the research question
• - the collection of data
• - the analysis of data.
• (Parahoo 1997)

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Our project

• Still embryonic (all research starts somewhere)
• Focussed on assessment of mental state
• a traditional framework in a non traditional
  setting
• Moves away from physiological focus
• Inclusion

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Quick fire thinking

• Speed of the essence
• Medical experience not required
• Catalyst for care- not necessarily care delivery
• Efficiency and effectiveness
• Safeguarding the vulnerable

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Familiarity

• A Airway
• B Breathing
• C Circulation
• D Disability
• E Environment

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Communication
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Tool to help make the right decisions fast

• Appearance
• Atmosphere
• Behaviour
• Communication
• Danger
• Environment

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Design

• Identify need
• Utilise previous framework
• Liaise with agencies
• Pilot study
• Identify areas of reformation
• Participants
• Apply environmental factors

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An off the wall idea??

• A tool that be used
• anywhere
• Recall
• Respect
• Referral
• Recovery

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Springboard or see-saw

• Talk talk talk (Ivan is good at this)
• An idea is can only become research if you move
  it forward (upward)

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Need to take the plunge

• And then its sink
• or swim

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Identification of the research question (Parahoo
1997)

• Does the use of a screening tool improve the
  first responders decision-making in a mental
  health emergency?

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Phoenix from the ashes