{"title":"Best practice and questions of security.","authors":"M Hazelton","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79537,"journal":{"name":"The Australian and New Zealand journal of mental health nursing","volume":"8 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21250480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inpatient nursing care of patients with borderline personality disorder: a review of the literature.","authors":"L O'Brien","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present paper reviews the literature on inpatient nursing care of patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). An overview of the background, major features, recent conceptualizations and predicted outcomes for sufferers of BPD is provided. Literature related to treatment and inpatient nursing care is also discussed. It is argued that nurses are in a position of having to provide care that is less than optimal and that may recreate the victimization and traumatization of the patient's childhood. In addition, without adequate education, support and supervision, nurses may experience significant occupational stress arising from their work with this group of patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":79537,"journal":{"name":"The Australian and New Zealand journal of mental health nursing","volume":"7 4","pages":"172-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20967832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mental Health Nursing Clinical Confidence Scale: a tool for measuring undergraduate learning on mental health clinical placements.","authors":"A Bell, J Horsfall, W Goodin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A significant proportion of the undergraduate preparation of student nurses in the tertiary sector involves the opportunity for experience in a variety of clinical placements. The majority of nursing students in Australian universities spend time in mental health settings. This compulsory clinical experience provides the opportunity for the application of nursing theory and the development of clinical confidence. Whereas there have been attempts to quantify the attainment of confidence to perform skills in general nursing settings, there has been little attention to this issue in mental health settings. The Mental Health Nursing Clinical Confidence Scale was developed as part of a larger study aimed at investigating the impact of mental health clinical placements on undergraduate nurses' attitudes and clinical confidence. Students were surveyed using the scale before and after a mental health nursing placement. The scale revealed robust psychometric properties. Significant changes in the self-reported confidence levels of students were found at the completion of the clinical placement. A number of key factors impacted on student confidence levels both before the clinical and after the placement. The 20 item scale will be a useful instrument in future evaluations of the effectiveness of student learning in mental health settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":79537,"journal":{"name":"The Australian and New Zealand journal of mental health nursing","volume":"7 4","pages":"184-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20967833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A patient classification system for the chronic psychiatric patient.","authors":"R Davidhizar, G E Mallow, G A Bechtel, J N Giger","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Classification of chronic psychiatric patients to determine staffing needs is an emerging issue confronting many psychiatric nurses. This paper follows the development of a patient classification system for chronic psychiatric patients in the United States. Few tools are available and those cited in the literature tend to report minimal validity and reliability and lack applicability to the setting or for the purpose desired. The tool demonstrated use and acceptance by nurses and was found to meet the comprehensive needs of patients it was designed to serve.</p>","PeriodicalId":79537,"journal":{"name":"The Australian and New Zealand journal of mental health nursing","volume":"7 4","pages":"126-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20967245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Suicide on the Internet: a focus for nursing intervention?","authors":"P Baume, A Rolfe, M Clinton","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Internet is a means for people who do not know each other to share information to their mutual benefit or harm. Whereas electronic communication without censorship has its benefits, the net has not escaped the attention of people contemplating suicide. If mental health nurses are to assist vulnerable people who surf the net in search of encouragement to complete suicide, they need to know about Internet resources on suicide and to understand how suicide fatalities influence the behaviours of vulnerable people who express suicidal ideation in cyberspace. The importance of suicide modelling, ambivalence, group death wishes, suicide notes and related research is considered. Mental health nurses are invited to consider the implications for suicide prevention.</p>","PeriodicalId":79537,"journal":{"name":"The Australian and New Zealand journal of mental health nursing","volume":"7 4","pages":"134-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20967828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Boarding house life for people with mental illness: an exploratory study.","authors":"M Cleary, P Woolford, T Meehan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study explored residents' perceptions of life in boarding houses within the Central Sydney Area Health Service. A purposeful sample of 14 people with a mental illness participated in semistructured interviews. The transcribed interviews were analysed for lifestyle issues to increase understanding of the factors that impact on quality of life from the consumers' perspective. It was encouraging to find that basic needs were being met, but it would appear that there is considerable room for improvement in quality of life for this vulnerable group of people. The findings of the present study should prove valuable for policy makers and health professionals who provide services to people with mental illness resident in boarding houses.</p>","PeriodicalId":79537,"journal":{"name":"The Australian and New Zealand journal of mental health nursing","volume":"7 4","pages":"163-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20967831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Round House Gaol: Western Australia's first lunatic asylum.","authors":"N Hudson-Rodd, G A Farrell","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper is an account of the social history of the Round House Gaol in Fremantle, Western Australia and of those lunatics that were gathered together into its closed geographical space. The first permanent structure, perched on the most elevated and prominent site in Fremantle, was a gaol; the design for which was based on Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon or Inspection House, created for the purpose of surveillance and control of inmates. Visible in 1997, the Round House still stands as a dominant, physical marker of the landscape, ranking as a premier historical tourist attraction in Western Australia. But its actual use as a place for the containment of lunatics is only cursorily alluded to. This paper addresses the previously ignored period of 1830-1850.</p>","PeriodicalId":79537,"journal":{"name":"The Australian and New Zealand journal of mental health nursing","volume":"7 4","pages":"152-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20967830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Operationalization of the concept of 'nursing care dependency' for use in long-term care facilities.","authors":"A Dijkstra, G Buist, T Dassen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nursing care dependency and similar terms are frequently used in nursing literature. However, their meanings are still to be adequately defined. This paper seeks to operationalize the concept of dependency for use in long-term nursing care practice. An analysis of the concept of dependency, specifically with regard to nursing care, will present a frame of reference from which a theoretical definition can be stated. Variable dimensions, observable indicators and means for measuring the indicators are presented. The paper concludes with implications for further research.</p>","PeriodicalId":79537,"journal":{"name":"The Australian and New Zealand journal of mental health nursing","volume":"7 4","pages":"142-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20967829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Community-based mental health care: bridging the gap between community care and primary care.","authors":"J Keegan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Australian nursing is undergoing major changes in practice, education and research in a climate of burgeoning health-care costs, and changing priorities and service directions. The government is searching for new ways to deliver services that are appropriate and equitable while focusing on containing costs. These are signs that it is an opportune time for nurses to test new roles, and one suggested way to provide extra cost-effective service is through the use of nurse practitioners. In order to improve the delivery of mental health services, the nurse practitioner specializing in mental health can provide a link between the community and the primary care provided by general practitioners. A proposed model for nurse practitioners in mental health is presented as a means of bridging this gap.</p>","PeriodicalId":79537,"journal":{"name":"The Australian and New Zealand journal of mental health nursing","volume":"7 3","pages":"95-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20719573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Responses to support groups for family caregivers in schizophrenia: who benefits from what?","authors":"H Winefield, J Barlow, E Harvey","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With increasing focus on community-based mental health services, family caregivers require and deserve professional support. The aim of the paper is to provide information useful to mental health professionals planning to run support groups for family caregivers in chronic mental illness. The data presented here combine qualitative information with quantitative information. From 36 group members who were caring for a relative with schizophrenia, eight were selected with extreme positions on four intake dimensions: (i) length of time since patient's diagnosis; (ii) amount of carer-patient contact; (iii) level of psychological distress; and (iv) level of rejecting attitudes to the patient. Differences in the responses of these individuals to the group meetings, as shown by their comments on both short and long-term effects, suggest how meetings, as shown by their comments on both short and long-term effects, suggest how groups might be selected and structured for maximum effectiveness. While all carers wanted better mental health rehabilitation services, accurate information regarding their relatives' illness and respect from mental health professionals, their length of experience as carers fundamentally affected their responsiveness to the discussion topics.</p>","PeriodicalId":79537,"journal":{"name":"The Australian and New Zealand journal of mental health nursing","volume":"7 3","pages":"103-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20719574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}