A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY
A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY
Our next study day : Saturday Nov 8th at Surrey University, Guildford
Intimate examination and examining intimacy
Contact us to register your place now: psychosexualnursing@btinternet.com
Members £25 (non-members £45) Cost of study day includes lunch and refreshments
See menu bar for study day and full programme
Valuing the Journey: the Past, Present and
Future of Psychosexual Nursing
Celebrate 10 years of The Association of
Psychosexual Nursing
On Saturday May 10th 2008
9.00-16.30
The Soho Centre for Health & Care -
1st floor conference room
29-30 Soho
Square WIV 5DH
Contact us to register your
place now: psychosexualnursing@btinternet.com
10th November 2007
Venue: Bedford Medical Institute, Bedford Hospital NHS Trust,
Ampthill Road, Bedford MK42 9DJ
'Undressing sexual issues in every day practice'
At this study day we will consider male and female intimate examination and how this takes place in practice, with the opportunities and pitfalls and emergent best practice.
For detail of the full programme click here Study days
Press
release
17 Oct 2006
Dr. Helen Allan, from the Centre for Research in
Nursing and Midwifery Education, at the European Institute of Health and
Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, has been invited to accept the
position of President of the Association of Psychosexual Nursing.
This is an organisation of practising nurses, who use Balint Seminars to
reflect and develop clinical nursing and work mainly in the field of women's
health. The Balint approach is based on the assumption that the psyche and the
soma, or the mind and body, are intimately connected in patients' symptoms and
experiences of health and illness. There are four regional Balint seminar
groups as well as a national meeting twice a year to reflect on case material
in Balint seminars.
The Association welcomes members from all areas of nursing and NHS clinical
practice such as physiotherapists.
This group is seen as central to two areas of future development for the
Centre at Surrey: firstly, emotions and learning and secondly women's health
and midwifery. A research report into learning through emotions was undertaken
in 2003 by Dr Jan Savage entitled Emotions in Practice: A study of Balint
seminar training as experiential learning for qualified nurses'. It is
published through the RCN Institute and available on the RCN website.
The following comments have been made about the contribution of the
Association's work through the Balint Seminars to nursing practice by members
and attendees at the seminars:
--'I find that developing my skills in psychosexual awareness has also
improved my skills with all my patients. I reflect more on all aspects of the
nurse/patient relationship and listen to my own feelings in the encounters. I
think my patients are benefiting as a result.'
--'I have a sense of surprise when we discover what is going on here and how
we can manage the difficult and painful situation.'
--'I do not believe I would still be working in these very intimate and
emotional areas if not supported by (Balint psychosexual) seminar work'.
--'The support gained from my colleagues in the seminar group was crucial to
my professional development.'
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Training Seminars. There are currently on-going training seminars in Bath, Bedford London and Bristol
Potential new groups:- Central London, Margate Kent
Please contact us for further details:- psychosexualnursing@btinternet.com