A Place for Lost Souls - A psychiatric nurse's stories of hope and despair

Informationen zum Autor Belinda Black is a Registered Mental Health Nurse, and a non-executive director of the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the independent regulator of health and social care in England. She began her nursing career in 1981, and over the following forty years has worked in two large secure hospitals, a regional secure unit, as a court liaison officer at a secure unit for mentally disordered offenders, as the CEO of a Sheffield-based social care charity, and with the National Institute For Health and Social Care Excellence (NICE) to develop national guidelines for the delivery of health and social care. Belinda lives in Huddersfield, and A Place for Lost Souls will be her first book. Klappentext A psychiatric nurse recalls her eye-opening experiences at one of Britain's secure mental hospitals during the 1980s. Vorwort A psychiatric nurse recalls her eye-opening experiences at one of Britain's secure mental hospitals during the 1980s. Zusammenfassung A psychiatric nurse recalls her eye-opening experiences at one of Britain's secure mental hospitals during the 1980s.

About the author

Belinda Black is a Registered Mental Health Nurse, and a non-executive director of the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the independent regulator of health and social care in England. She began her nursing career in 1981, and over the following forty years has worked in two large secure hospitals, a regional secure unit, as a court liaison officer at a secure unit for mentally disordered offenders, as the CEO of a Sheffield-based social care charity, and with the National Institute For Health and Social Care Excellence (NICE) to develop national guidelines for the delivery of health and social care. Belinda lives in Huddersfield, and A Place for Lost Souls will be her first book.

Product details

• Authors: Belinda Black
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.2024
• EAN: 9781529429688
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-2968-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; MEDICAL / Mental Health, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, MEDICAL / Nursing / Psychiatric & Mental Health, Care of the mentally ill, Social and cultural history, Psychiatric Nursing, Care of people with mental health issues, c 1980 to c 1989, Psychiatric and mental disorders, Psychiatric nursing / Mental health nursing