Len Bowers
Professor of Psychiatric Nursing and Head of Research
RMN, PhD
Tel: +44 20 7040 5824
Fax: +44 20 7040 5811
Email: L.Bowers@city.ac.uk
Home: len.bowers@btinternet.com
Teaching responsibilities:
Supervision of full time and part time MPhil/PhD students, regular lectures as part of post basic and post graduate education programmes. Contributes to curriculum development.
Research responsibilities:
Leads a programme of research into conflict and containment in psychiatry, using a variety of methodological approaches from interview based work through to controlled trials. Recent work has included the development and testing of an intervention to reduce absconding, investigations of ward safety and security policies, student nurses’ attitudes to containment measures, patterns of patient-staff conflict, among others.
Other:
Founder and co-owner of the psychiatric-nursing email list, founder and Director of the European Violence in Psychiatry Research Group. Reviewer for several peer reviewed journals, and referee to research grant awarding bodies Co-chair of the Education and Research subgroup of the Nursing Advisory Group to NIMH. Author of several books, more than 50 published papers, and has made over 50 conference presentations.
Publications
Veltkamp E, Nijman H, Stolker J, Frigge K, Dries P and Bowers, L. (2008) Seclusion Or Forced Medication, Patient’s Preferences. Psychiatric Services 59:209-211
Bowers, L., Jeffery, D., Bilgin, H., Jarrett, M., Simpson, A. and Jones, J. (2008) Psychiatric intensive care units: a literature review. International Journal of Social Psychiatry 54(1)56-68
Bowers, L., Nijman, H. and Palmstierna, T. (2007) The Attempted and Actual Assault Scale (Attacks). International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research 16(3)171-176
Foster, C., Bowers, L. and Nijman, H. (2007) Aggressive behaviour on acute psychiatric wards: prevalence, severity and management. Journal of Advanced Nursing 58(2)140-149
Bowers, L., van der Werf, B., Vokkolainen, A. Muir-Cochrane, E., Allan, T. & Alexander, J. (2007) International variation in attitudes to containment measures for disturbed psychiatric inpatients. International Journal of Nursing Studies 44(3)357-364
Bowers, L., Simpson, A., Alexander, J., Ryan, C. and Carr-Walker, P. (2007) Student psychiatric nurses' approval of containment measures: relationship to perception of aggression and attitudes to personality disorder. International Journal of Nursing Studies 44(3)349-356
Bowers, L., Allan, T., Simpson, A., Nijman, H., and Warren, J. (2007) Adverse incidents, patient flow and nursing workforce variables on acute psychiatric wards: The Tompkins Acute Ward Study. International Journal of Social Psychiatry 53(1)75-84
Bowers, L., Jeffery, D., Nijman, H., Simpson, A., Daly, C. and Warren, J. (2007) Junior staffing changes and the temporal ecology of adverse incidents in acute psychiatry: the Tompkins Acute Ward Study. Journal of Advanced Nursing 57(2)153-160
Bowers, L. (2006) Patient homicide causes nursing staff to leave. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 13:778-779
Bowers, L., Simpson, A. Eyres, S. Nijman, H., Hall, C., Grange, A., Phillips, L. (2006) Serious untoward incidents and their aftermath in acute inpatient psychiatry: the Tompkins Acute Ward Study. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing 15:226-234
Brennan, G., Flood, C. and Bowers, L. (2006) Constraints and blocks to change and improvement on acute psychiatric wards – lessons from the City Nurses project. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 13:475-482
Ryan, C. and Bowers, L. (2006) An analysis of nurses' post incident manual restraint reports. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 13:527–532
Bowers, L., Carr-Walker, P., Allan, T., Callaghan, P., Nijman, H., Paton, J. (2006) Attitude to personality disorder among prison officers working in a dangerous and severe personality disorder unit. International Journal of the Law and Psychiatry 29:333-342
Bowers, L. (2006) On conflict, containment and the relationship between them. Nursing Inquiry 13(3)172-180
Bowers, L., Nijman, H., Allan, T., Simpson, A., Warren, J., and Turner, L. (2006) Prevention and management of aggression training and officially reported violent incidents: The Tompkins Acute Ward Study. Psychiatric Services 57: 1022-1026
Flood, C., Brennan, G., Bowers, L., Hamilton, B., LiPang, M. and Oladapo, P. (2006) Reflections on the process of change on acute psychiatric wards during the City Nurses project. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 13:260-268
Bowers, L., Flood, C. Brennan, G. LiPang, M. and Oladapo, P. (2006) A trial to reduce conflict and containment on acute psychiatric wards: City Nurses. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 13:165-172
Bowers, L. and Allan, T. (2006) The Attitude to Personality Disorder Questionnaire: psychometric properties and results. Journal of Personality Disorders 20(3)281-293
Simpson, A., Bowers, L., Alexander, J., Ridley, C. and Warren, J. (2005) Occupational Therapy and Multidisciplinary Working on Acute Psychiatric Wards: The Tompkins Acute Ward Study. British Journal of Occupational Therapy 68(12)545-552
Bowers, L., Simpson, A., Alexander, J., Hackney, D., Nijman, H., Grange, A. and Warren, J. (2005) The Nature and Purpose of Acute Psychiatric Wards: The Tompkins Acute Ward Study. Journal of Mental Health 14(6)625-635
Ryan, C. and Bowers, L. (2005) Coercive manoeuvres on a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 12(6)695-702
Bowers, L., Douzenis, A., Galeazzi, G., Forghieri, M., Tsopelas, C., Simpson, A., and Allan, T. (2005) Disruptive and dangerous behaviour by patients on acute psychiatric wards in three European centres. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 40:822-828
Bowers, L., Simpson, A. and Alexander, J. (2005) Real world application of an intervention to reduce absconding. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 12:598-602
Bowers, L., Carr-Walker, P., Paton, J., Nijman, H., Callaghan, P., Allan, T., Alexander, J. (2005) Changes in attitudes to personality disorder on a DSPD unit. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 15(3)171-183
Nijman, H., Bowers, L., Oud, N. & Jansen, G. (2005) Psychiatric nurses’ experiences with inpatient aggression. Aggressive Behaviour 31(3)217-227
McCann, E. & Bowers, L. (2005) Training in cognitive behavioural interventions on acute psychiatric inpatient wards. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 12:215-222
Bowers, L. (2005) Reasons for admission and their implications for the nature of acute inpatient psychiatric nursing. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 12:231–236
Alexander, J. and Bowers, L. (2004) Acute Psychiatric ward rules: a review of the literature. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 11(5)623-631
Carr-Walker, P., Bowers, L., Callaghan, P., Nijman, H., Paton, J. (2004) Attitudes Towards Personality Disorders: Comparison Between Prison Officers and Psychiatric Nurses. Legal and Criminological Psychology 9:265-277
Bowers, L., Simpson, A., Alexander, J., Ryan, C. and Carr-Walker, P. (2004) Cultures of psychiatry and the professional socialization process: the case of containment methods for disturbed patients. Nurse Education Today 24:435-442
Bowers, L., Callaghan, P., Clark, N. and Evers, C. (2004) Comparisons of psychotropic drug prescribing patterns in acute psychiatric wards across Europe. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 60(1)29-35
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