Psychiatric and mental health nursing

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Coalition Petitions Minister To Sack Ankaful Hospital Director

The Coalition of Concerned Nurses and Midwives has petitioned the Minister of Health to immediately relieve the...

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Sack Our Director In A Week Or Risk Withdrawal of Services – Psychiatric Nurses

Nurses of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the Central Region have threatened to withdraw their services and release...

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Increased Mental Patients On Our Streets Worrying

Psychiatric disorders (mental illness) according to experts can be caused by a predisposing factor. This means that it...

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Over 4,000 Bonded Nurses To Start Work In July

Over 4,000 unemployed bonded nurses have received financial clearance from the ministry of finance to enable the...

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Bonded Diploma Nurses Failed Exams – Agyeman-Manu

The financial clearance for most of the unemployed diploma nurses who besieged the Ministry of Health last week...

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Don’t Be In A Rush To Stop Bonding Nurses – Labour Expert Advises Gov’t

A Labour Expert Y. B Amponsah has urged the Akufo Addo led-government not to hasten in revoking the bonding arrangement...

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We’ll Post Aggrieved Nurses Soon – Tina Mensah

The deputy Minister of Health Tina Mensah has assured that process are far advanced to get the aggrieved bonded nurses...

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Jobless Nurses Threaten To March To Flagstaff House

Members of the Coalition of Unemployed Bonded Diploma Nurses have warned they will march to the seat of government if...

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Over 300 Million People Are Affected By Depression

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says about 322 million people around the world are affected by depression, and...

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Restoring Mental Health’s Dignity

On December 31, 2016, a few hours before the New Year, a 28-year-old man allegedly ended his life. Media reports during...

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Over 300 Million People Are Affected By Depression – WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says about 322 million people around the world are affected by depression, and...

Opinion

Wasting Insane Youths In The Streets

In this report, Odimegwu Onwumere writes that a compassionate Nigerian rescued an insane young lady from the Abuja...

Opinion

Focus On Psychiatry And Psychiatric Nurses

So one Monday morning I was on my way to work cruising in a trotro, about two seats behind the conductor listening to...

Politics

A Cry At Noon, Accra Psychiatric Hospital’s Blues!

From Monday, October 31, 2016 to Friday, November 4, 2016, I was stationed at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital reporting...

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Mental Health Crisis

GHANA’S mental health system is currently on its knees as nurses at the biggest mental health facility, Accra...

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NLC Orders Psychiatric Nurses To Return To Work

The National Labour Commission (NLC) has ordered Nurses at the Accra Psychiatric hospital to call off their strike and...

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National Labour Commission Orders Psychiatric Nurses To Return To Work

The National Labour Commission (NLC) has ordered Nurses at the Accra Psychiatric hospital to call off their strike and...

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Nurses’ Strike Affecting Mental Healthcare

The Mental Health Authority has said the absence of nurses at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, is worsening the already...

Opinion

Irresponsibility Underpinned By Madness

The act of commission or omission regarding the replenishment of essential stocks at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital is...