Kris Deering

Owing to my mother suffering from mental illness it influenced me to become a mental health nurse, qualifying in 2002. I observed that care practices were not always beneficial to service user needs and sometimes could even be harmful. Hence over time I gradually developed a research interest and focus in how to improve mental health care so that it is more therapeutic in mental health hospitals. This led me to engaging a PhD about how such care might improve for service users fitting the Pragmatism philosophy maxim that research ideally improves the lives of those most effected by the topic under study. It also has informed several educational outputs using Pragmatism to develop mental health nursing education, for example for the forthcoming evidence based practice chapter in the Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing: The Craft of Caring text (4th edition) for student mental health nurses.

Whilst I appreciate the requirements for a PhD for this editorial post it will be completed by early summer while it is important to note that every chapter has been written for an accepted publication. Essentially, I am an early researcher who is highly motivated about ensuring nursing education leads to improved care outcomes irrespective of what healthcare service a patient or service users are under. This has be shown with much of my work, such as being an editor for a nursing education textbook published by Routledge which underpins the nursing programme at the university of Exeter. In addition, I also led the editing of book underpinning the MSc module about providing care for people experiencing a mental health crisis. This text was published by McGraw-Hill Education.

I am very willing to learn and develop my aptitude within the editorial process of a renowned journal such as Nurse Education Today and see such opportunities as something that will personally enhance my life, given that I see nursing scholarship and research as an important vocation.

• Keen reader of nursing related philosophies, enjoys classic movies and countryside walks

Publications from the last six year.

Doyle, M., Grundy, A., McGleenan, K., Nash, M. and Deering, K. (2024) Clinical Risk Management in Mental Health Services: 10 Principles for Best Practice. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing. Early View.
Revel, J., Deering, K. and Gallagher, A. (2024) Ethical aspects of technologies of surveillance in mental health inpatient settings–Enabling or undermining the therapeutic nurse/patient relationship?. Nursing Ethics. Early view.
Deering, K., Wagstaff, C., Williams, J., Bermingham, I. and Pawson, C. (2024) Ontological insecurity of inattentiveness: Conceptualizing how risk management practices impact on patient recovery when admitted to an acute psychiatric hospital. International journal of mental health nursing, 33(2), pp.420-430.
Gallagher, A., Deering, K. and De Luca, E. eds. (2023) Nursing practice and education: Aspiring to excellence through seven pillars of learning. London: Routledge.
Miller, R. and Deering, K. (2024) Integrating a trauma-informed approach into preregistration nurse education. Mental Health Practice, 27(4). PP. 1-7.
Wagstaff, C., Deering, K., Lawson, S.M. and Colwell, L. (2024) Learning from media coverage of recent service failings in mental health care: A response from mental health nurse educators. Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing, 31(1), pp.52-54.
Deering, K., Brimblecombe, N., Matonhodze, J.C., Nolan, F., Collins, D.A. and Renwick, L. (2023) Methodological procedures for priority setting mental health research: a systematic review summarising the methods, designs and frameworks involved with priority setting. Health Research Policy and Systems, 21(1), pp. 64 – 74.
Batterham, M., Deering, K. and Singleton, A.M. (2024) Urban influences on the development, perpetuation and mitigation of psychosis. Mental Health Practice, 27(3), pp. 1-10.
Deering, K. and Williams, J. (2022) Interprofessional Perspectives Of Mental Health Crisis: For Nurses, Health, and the Helping Professions. London: McGraw-Hill Education (UK).
Nuttall, A., Douglass, E. and Deering, K., (2022) COVID-19-related stressors and coping strategies of support staff working with people with learning disabilities. Learning Disability Practice, 25(2), pp. 1-9.
Deering, K., Williams, J. and Williams, R. (2022) The risk of risk management: adopting critical theories to explore clinical risk concerns in mental health care. Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 26(2), pp.124-133.
Deering, K., Williams, J., Stayner, K., Pawson, C. (2021) Giving a voice to patient experiences through the insights of pragmatism. Nursing Philosophy, 22(1), pp. 1-9.
Deering, K. and Williams, J., 2024. Approaches to reviewing the literature in grounded theory: a framework. Nurse researcher, 32(3), 1-8.
Deering, K., Pawson, C., Summers, N. and Williams, J. (2019) Patient perspectives of helpful risk management practices within mental health services. A mixed studies systematic review of primary research. Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing, 26(5-6), pp.185-197.