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McKenna, B.; Thom, K.; O'Brien, A.J. |
| Title |
Return to nursing programmes: Justifications for a mental health specific course |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2008 |
Publication |
Intensive & Critical Care Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
5 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
1-16 |
| Keywords |
Psychiatric Nursing; Training; Recruitment and retention; Curriculum |
| Abstract |
This paper presents the findings from research that investigated the feasibility of developing a specialty return to mental health nursing programme in New Zealand. This was achieved through a scoping of existing return to nursing programmes; a survey of non-active nurses; and stakeholder consultation via interviews or focus groups. Existing generic programmes fail to attract non-active nurses wishing to focus on mental health nursing. The non-active nurses survey found 142 nurses who presently would or might possibly return to mental health nursing and participate in a programme. Most stakeholders supported the idea of implementing such a programme. The findings from this research indicate both feasibility and enthusiasm for the introduction of return to mental health nursing programmes. It is recommended that all aspects of this course mirror the service user focused 'recovery paradigm' that is a central tenet in contemporary mental health service delivery. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 984 |
Serial |
968 |
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| Author |
Rydon, S.E. |
| Title |
The attitudes, knowledge and skills needed in mental health nurses: The perspective of users of mental health services |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2005 |
Publication |
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
14 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
78-87 |
| Keywords |
Patient satisfaction; Psychiatric Nursing; Attitude of health personnel |
| Abstract |
In this study a qualitative descriptive methodology with focus group interviews was used to explore with users of mental health services, the attitudes, knowledge and skills that they need in mental health nurses. Users of mental health services valued the therapeutic work of mental health nurses, and identified positive attitudes towards users of mental health services as essential in mental health nurses. However, they did not consistently experience a therapeutic approach in their interactions with mental health nurses. In a sociopolitical climate where the views of users of mental health services are increasingly incorporated into education and the planning and delivery of services, there is a need for more research that reflects the perspective of users. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 961 |
Serial |
945 |
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| Author |
O'Brien, A.J. |
| Title |
The therapeutic relationship: Perceptions of mental health nurses |
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| Year |
2000 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Massey University Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Psychiatric Nursing; Mental health; Nurse-patient relations |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 914 |
Serial |
898 |
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| Author |
O'Shea, M.; Reddy, L. |
| Title |
Action change in New Zealand mental health nursing: One team's perspective |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2007 |
Publication |
Practice Development in Health Care |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
6 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
137-142 |
| Keywords |
Experiential learning; Psychiatric Nursing; Communication; Community health nursing |
| Abstract |
This paper describes an attempt at effecting change with specific relevance to the discharge planning of clients from a New Zealand inpatient mental health unit to a community setting. It explores how a team of community mental health nurses, practising in an urban/rural area, used the concepts of practice development to endeavour to bring about change while still retaining a client-centred focus. It describes how, in their enthusiasm, they embarked on the road to practice change without undertaking some of the essential ground work, Although they did not achieve all they set out to achieve, much was learnt in the process. In this paper, the authors outline their key learning points concerning the importance of engagement, communication, consistency and cooperation to the process and outcomes of practice change. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 897 |
Serial |
881 |
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| Author |
Nichols, J. |
| Title |
An exploration of clinical supervision within mental health nursing |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2004 |
Publication |
Vision: A Journal of Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Issue |
November |
Pages |
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| Keywords |
Clinical supervision; Mental health; Psychiatric Nursing |
| Abstract |
The purpose of this paper is to shed some light on the concept of clinical supervision specifically in relation to mental health nursing. The author talks briefly about the naming and history of clinical supervision and aims to provide some clarity around defining the concept. There is discussion around the role, value and objectives of clinical supervision before critical examination of two models of clinical supervision within two different contexts. Finally the strengths and weaknesses of each model are discussed, and the differences illustrate some of the contextual factors of clinical supervision. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 876 |
Serial |
860 |
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| Author |
Jenkinson, F.H. |
| Title |
An evaluation of nursing documentation as it relates to pro re nata (prn) medication administration |
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2003 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Massey University Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Drug administration; Psychiatric Nursing; Administration; Mental health |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 875 |
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859 |
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| Author |
Codlin, K.C. |
| Title |
Mental health nurses and clinical supervision: A naturalistic comparison study into the effect of group clinical supervision on minor psychological disturbance, job satisfaction and work-related stress |
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2004 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
University of Otago Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Psychiatric Nursing; Clinical supervision; Stress; Job satisfaction; Mental health |
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| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 845 |
Serial |
829 |
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| Author |
Smith, P.A. |
| Title |
Mad bad or sad: Caring for the mentally disordered offender in the court environment from a nurse's perspective |
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| Year |
2004 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Mental health; Psychiatric Nursing |
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This paper examines the difficulties health professionals face daily when providing care for the mentally disordered offender in the court environment. The role of the court nurse is to provide care for people with mental health needs in the court and health professionals can find this a restrictive environment to work in. This is mainly due to the court's legal processes which are designed to punish rather than offer therapeutic alternatives. By advocating for the mentally disordered offender, the court nurse ensures the court is aware of an individual's mental health needs, thus reducing the prospect of inappropriate sentencing, and the associated stigmatisation that may occur as a result of a criminal conviction. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 843 |
Serial |
827 |
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| Author |
Bigwood, S. |
| Title |
Got to be a soldier: Mental health nurses experiences of physically restraining patients |
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| Year |
2007 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
University of Otago Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Psychiatric Nursing; Workplace violence; Mental health; Stress |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 829 |
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813 |
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| Author |
Rydon, S.E. |
| Title |
Attitudes, skills and knowledge of mental health nurses: The perception of users of mental health services |
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2001 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Massey University Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Mental health; Psychiatric Nursing; Patient satisfaction; Attitude of health personnel |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 819 |
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803 |
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| Author |
Saba, W. |
| Title |
Walking in two worlds: A Kaupapa Maori research project examining the experiences of Maori nurses working in district health boards, Maori mental health services |
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2007 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Mental health; Psychiatric Nursing; District Health Boards; Maori |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 817 |
Serial |
801 |
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| Author |
Sadler, D. |
| Title |
Stigma, discrimination and a model for psychiatric mental health nursing practice |
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2000 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Mental health; Psychiatric Nursing; Psychology |
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This paper seeks to understand the aetiology of stigma. The word stigma comes from the Greek language and refers to a brand, a mark of shame. Society has used this phenomenon to mark those who do not fit with the stereotypical virtual identity expected by a group. Stigma has persisted throughout the ages to enforce norms and sanction rules. Stigma is a term used to broadly define an attitude to negative attributes. It is a way of treating people that indicates to the individual, they are different from the norm. Research indicates the general population has discriminatory attitudes to those who have experienced mental illness. This discrimination impacts on the lives of those people. Their stories tell of shame, sadness and anguish. Families too, feel the ongoing effects of stigma. Psychiatric mental health professionals are said to perpetuate the discrimination arising from the stigma of mental illness. This is shown in the literature to persist through labelling and disempowering practices. The attitude of nurses in particular is critical to promoting healing environments. It is thought that a humanistic altruistic approach to nursing practice will help to eliminate discriminatory practice by nurses. It is hoped that this approach will create collaborative care that gives the individual the respect, response, choice and support they need to assist in recovering from mental illness. |
| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 815 |
Serial |
799 |
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| Author |
Spence, D. |
| Title |
Nursing people from cultures other than one's own: A perspective from New Zealand |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Contemporary Nurse |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
15 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
222-231 |
| Keywords |
Transcultural nursing; Maori; Psychiatric Nursing |
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This paper provides an overview of the evolving meaning of 'culture' in New Zealand nursing. Then, drawing upon the findings of research that used hermeneutic phenomenology to explore the experience of nursing people from cultures other than one's own, a description of the constituent parts is of this phenomenon is briefly outlined and followed by an exemplar that describes the coalescent and contradictory nature of the phenomenon as a whole. As New Zealand nurses negotiate the conflicts essential for ongoing development of their practice, interplay of the notions of prejudice, paradox and possibility is evident at intrapersonal and interpersonal levels as well as in relation to professional and other discourses. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 798 |
Serial |
782 |
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| Author |
Prebble, K. |
| Title |
Ordinary men and uncommon women: A history of psychiatric nursing in New Zealand public mental hospitals, 1939-1972 |
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| Year |
2007 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
University of Auckland Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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Psychiatric Nursing; Mental health; History; Gender |
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This social-cultural history explores the changing context, culture, and identity of psychiatric nurses working in New Zealand public mental hospitals between 1939 and 1972. Primary documentary sources and oral history interviews provided the data for analysis. The thesis is divided into two periods: 1939 to 1959 when asylum-type conditions shaped the culture of the institutional workforce, and 1960 to 1972 when mental health reform and nursing professionalisation challenged the isolation and distinct identity of mental hospital nurses. Between 1939 and 1959 the introduction of somatic treatments did not substantially change nursing practice in mental hospitals. Overcrowding, understaffing and poor resources necessitated the continuance of custodial care. The asylum-type institutions were dependent on a male attendant workforce to ensure the safety of disturbed male patients, and the maintenance of hospital farms, gardens, and buildings. Although female nurses provided all the care and domestic work on the female side, the belief that psychiatric nursing was physically demanding, potentially dangerous, and morally questionable, characterised the work as generally unsuitable for women. Introduction of psychiatric nursing registration which was a move toward professionalisation did little to change the dominance of a male, working-class culture. From 1960 to 1972 psychiatric nurses' identity was contested. New therapeutic roles created the possibility of the nurses becoming health professionals. Their economic security and occupational power, however, was tied to an identity as unionised, male workers. As psychiatric nurses were drawn closer to the female-dominated nursing profession through health service changes and nursing education reform, both men and women acted to protect both their working conditions and their patients' welfare. To achieve these ends, they employed working-class means of industrial action. By accepting the notion that psychiatric nurses' identity was socially constructed, this thesis provides an interpretation that goes beyond the assumption that nursing is a woman's profession. Instead, it presents psychiatric nursing as a changing phenomenon shaped by contested discourses of gender, class and professionalisation. Nursing in public mental hospitals attracted ordinary men and uncommon women whose collective identity was forged from the experience of working in a stigmatised role. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 763 |
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749 |
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| Author |
McLean, J.M. |
| Title |
Pushing the boundaries: Relationships with adolescents |
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| Year |
2007 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Psychiatric Nursing; Mental health; Adolescents; Nurse-patient relations |
| Abstract |
Therapeutic relationships are central to mental health nursing. The nurse's role in maintaining professional yet therapeutic boundaries within this relationship can be challenging. When therapeutic boundaries are breeched within the nurse adolescent relationship the adolescent's safety within this relationship is compromised. There is currently limited literature on how nurses are managing professional boundaries in relationships with adolescents in this setting. The adolescent's nature is to push boundaries; therefore the nurse needs to be acutely aware of this boundary pushing in everyday practice settings. For the safety of the adolescent and the nurse it is vital the nurse understands her role in managing the professional boundary. This thesis explores, through the use of narrative inquiry, four adolescent mental health nurses' experiences of assessing, understanding and maintaining therapeutic boundaries with adolescents in a mental health setting in New Zealand. The unique and specific implications for adolescent mental health nursing are discussed. Three key themes emerged from the analysis and findings: the importance of the nurse clarifying his/her role; the learning that occurs throughout the practice journey; and the role of the nurse in keeping the adolescent and the nurse safe. These findings highlight the importance of clinical supervision and open communication with senior nurses and mentors, which assist the nurse in monitoring practice. When nurses do not have sufficient knowledge of the fundamental principles of adolescent mental health nursing; such as knowledge and skills in both adolescent development and psychodynamic nursing, they are at risk of boundary crossings. Recommendations from this research include more emphasis on psychodynamic nursing principles in nursing education and nursing practice. There is a need for specialised education for nurses in child and adolescent mental health nursing. Nursing entry to practice programmes for new graduate nurses working in mental health, could assist in providing this. There is a call for further research into therapeutic relationships and professional boundaries in this complex nursing specialty. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 762 |
Serial |
748 |
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