Risk and Nursing Practice

PAUL GODIN is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the St. Bartholomew School of Nursing and Midwifery at City University, UK. He teaches Sociology, Health and Social Policy to a range of pre-registration, post-registration, diploma, degree and post-graduate students. He has over ten years of experience in teaching Sociology to pre and post-registration nursing students and other health care professionals at diploma, degree and masters level. He currently runs MSc modules on the History of Mental Health Care and Community Care. He also teaches Risk Theory to students of a MSc module on the Sociology of Public Health.

Introduction; P.Godin .- Managing Risk in Community Practice: Nursing Risk and Decision Making; A.Alaszewski.- A 'Risk of the Job'? Violence Against Nurses from Patients and the Public As An Emerging Policy Issue; M.A.Elston, J.Gabe & M.O'Beirne.- The Rise of Risk Thinking in Mental Health Nursing; P.Godin.- Different Understandings of Risk Within a Forensic Mental Health Care Unit: A Cultural Approach; P.Godin, J.Davies, B.Heyman & M.Shaw.- The Very LOUD Discourses of Risk in Pregnancy; K.MacKinnon & L. McCoy.- Exploring the Issues of Risk and Freedom for Parents of Children with Life Limiting, Life Threatening and Chronic Health Problems; D.Pontin.- The Tension Between Autonomy and Safety in Nursing Adults with Learning Disabilities; B.Heyman & J.Davies.- Balancing Risk and Independence in Nursing Older Adults; K.Horton.- Managing Risk The Case of Sexualities and Sexual Health; A.Pryce .- Final Thoughts; P.Godin.