Welcome to NAPICU

Five Minute Survey

Can you spare five minutes to complete a survey on nursing practice in the area of PRN psychotropic medication?

If so please scroll down for details..

About NAPICU

Welcome to the National Association of Psychiatric and Intensive Care and Low Secure Units website.

NAPICU is a rapidly expanding organisation committed to developing and promoting the intensive care speciality. The Association was officially formed in 1998 although the roots of its formation lie three years previous to that. The aims of NAPICU are:

To improve Service user experience and outcome and to promote staff support and development with Psychiatric Intensive Care Units/Low Secure Units by (in a multidisciplinary Manner):

  • Improving Mechanisms for the delivery of psychiatric intensive care and low secure care
  • Auditing effectiveness
  • Promoting research, education and practice development

The association uses a number of tools and methods to meet these aims, including: quarterly meetings and academic seminars; E-newsletters; training initiatives; website; and of course the Annual National Conference. Various committees have been established to take an overview and further develop PICUs or LSUs through research, audit, training and education. A strategy and planning group is currently being assembled and this group will be working on gathering evidence-based data through a National Audit to help formulate policy and influence the provision of high quality care in PICUs and LSUs.

NAPICU Quarterly Meeting

Join us on Thursday 8th March 2012

Strategy Versus Reality: The Future of Low Secure Services

Hosted by St Andrew's Healthcare in Northampton

Registration Now Open. Please click here for further information

 

Survey

'WE VALUE YOUR EXPERTISE!

PRN Practice – A Nurses Perspective An investigation into the practice of PRN psychotropic medication employed by nurses in mental health settings. Please click on the link to participate in the questionnaire.

The study is concerned with investigating nursing practice in the area of PRN psychotropic medication. We are also interested to find out what guidance, education and training is available to nurses in PRN psychotropic administration.

The questionnaire will take approx 5 minutes to complete and participation is confidential and anonymous and we do not ask for any personal information that may identify participants. The details of this questionnaire will be temporarily held on a secure database throughput the research period and will be destroyed appropriately in accordance with the Data Protection Act (1998).This survey is on behalf of a third party and not for NAPICU.

 

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