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The chapters are a rich contribution of cross-cultural thinking on the many dilemmas and challenges facing nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists and other health care practitioners, working with specific client groups. Each contributor has utilised empirical data to analyse relevant issues, such as: professional standards; effectiveness of preparation for nurses working within secure environments; day to day and long term challenges facing nurses; clinical effectiveness; the dilemma of security versus practice; how forensic nursing differs from other kinds of nursing; and what forensic nurses can contribute to other mental health care disciplines. Examples of how research findings may be integrated into practice, will be of interest not only to forensic nurses, but also to significant sectors of the mental health care field.

David Robinson is Associate Professor in Forensic Nursing at the University of Sheffield/Rampton Hospital Authority and has been involved in full time research since 1986. He is currently the Chair of the National Forensic Nurses Research and Development Group. Alyson Kettles is the Research and Development Officer at Royal Cornhill Hospital in Aberdeen. She has been involved in full time psychiatric and mental health nursing research, audit and development since 1992. She currently serves as Member of the Research and Development Committee of the National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting for Scotland.