Dr Adrian Jones

Visiting Reader of Mental Health Nursing, Glyndŵr University

Tel: 01978 727250
Email: ADRIAN.JONES3@wales.nhs.uk

Adrian Jones is a Nurse Consultant working in Assertive Outreach Team in Wrexham. He is also a Visiting Reader at Glyndŵr University, Wrexham.

His academic interests include new ways of working such as nurse prescribing, MDT working and the newly established role of responsible clinician. In 2010 Adrian became the first nurse in Wales to qualify as an Approved Clinician under the Mental Health Act (2009).

Adrian has published 50 articles on a wide range of topics including nursing theory, care pathways, nurse prescribing and psychiatric medication. He has also published a book on nurse prescribing in mental health.

Publications (since the beginning of 2008)

Jones M. & Jones A. (2008) Promotion of choice in the care of people with bipolar disorder: a mental health nursing perspective. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing 15, 87-92.

Jones M. & Jones A. (2008) Choice as an intervention to promote well-being: the role of the nurse prescriber. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing 15, 75-81.

Jones M. & Jones A. (2008). Do partial agonists cause akathisia: the role of the mental health nurse who prescribes. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing 15, 417-423.

Jones A. (2008) Independent nurse prescribing in mental health settings. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing 15, 109-117.

Harborne G. & Jones A. (2008) Supplementary prescribing: a new way of working for psychiatrists and nurses. Psychiatric Bulletin 32, 136-139.

Jones M. & Jones A. (2008) The effect of antipsychotic medication on metabolic syndrome. Nursing Standard 22, 43-48.

Jones A. & Jones M. (2008) Helping our patients to stop smoking on acute psychiatric wards. Mental Health Practice 11, 18-21.

Jones A. & Jones M.  (2008) Managing patients with antipsychotic drug-induced hyperprolactinaemia. Nursing Standard 23(6), 48-56.

Jones A. (2008) What are the nursing implications when using paliperidone for people with schizophrenia. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing 15(10), 792-799.

Wells J., Gooney M., Bergen J., Jones A. (2009) Views on nurse prescribing - a survey of community mental health nurses in the Republic of Ireland. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing, 16(1), 10-17.

Jones A. & Harborne G. (2009) Survey results on independent nurse prescribing. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing, 16, 508-515.

Jones M. & Jones A. (2009) Pharmacological developments in the treatment of depression. Nursing Standard. 23, 40-47.
Carden J. & Jones A. (2009) Collecting subjective and rating scale data within a single case study design: cognitive behavioural therapy for a person experiencing psychosis. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing 16, 848-856.
 
Jones M. & Jones A. (In Press) The use of choice by a mental health nurse prescriber to support patients prescribed mental health medicine: reflections from clinical practice. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing

Books

Jones A. (2009) Nurse Prescribing in Mental Health. Wiley Blackwell.

Book chapters

Jones A (2009) Working in partnership to support people with mental health difficulties. In: Effective Practice in Health & Social Care: A Partnership Approach (Eds. J. Buchanon & R. Carnwell). Open University Press.

Conference Presentations

Jones A. (2008) Independent Mental Health Nurse Prescribing. American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Minneapolis. 15th - 18th October 2008.

Jones A. (2008) Independent Nurse Prescribing in Acute Care. Association of Nurse Consultants & Learning Disability 6th Annual Conference, Manchester. 1st. December 2008.