{"title":"Nursing practice and ethnography: a mental health nursing response to threatened violence in ethnographic fieldwork.","authors":"N G Procter","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper reverses the usual argument about the relationship between research and nursing by showing how mental health nursing knowledge can be used to facilitate ethnographic research. It focuses on the use of mental health nursing in ethnographic data generation from Serbian Australian participants living in the shadow of the Balkan war 1991-96. Beginning with a fieldwork episode at the scene of property damage, it traces the main features of participants' distress, and describes a mental health nursing response to a threat of violence against the author. A background in mental health nursing facilitated a productive and safe interaction under difficult and extremely emotionally charged circumstances.</p>","PeriodicalId":79537,"journal":{"name":"The Australian and New Zealand journal of mental health nursing","volume":"7 3","pages":"116-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20719576","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":"Update on centres for mental health nursing research.","authors":"M Clinton","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79537,"journal":{"name":"The Australian and New Zealand journal of mental health nursing","volume":"7 3","pages":"83-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20719016","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":"Developing advanced mental health nursing practice: a process of change.","authors":"M Crowe","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the current economic climate of restructuring and rationalization it is important for mental health nurses to define their realm of expertise in order to demonstrate professional accountability and to validate their position in relation to unqualified but cheaper caregivers. If mental health nurses are to act in the best interests of patients and the community, they need to challenge current trends in health-care delivery that are preoccupied with economic efficiency and lack of consideration of broader social issues. To substantiate mental health nursing practice and defend against the undermining of clinical expertise by policies and service delivery that advances economic interests, mental health nurses need to corroborate their claims to expertise by articulating a patient-centred rationale for their practice. The ideas presented in this paper have evolved through the development of two postgraduate programmes for advanced mental health nursing practice--one in Australia at Griffith University and the other in New Zealand at the Department of Psychological Medicine, Christchurch School of Medicine.</p>","PeriodicalId":79537,"journal":{"name":"The Australian and New Zealand journal of mental health nursing","volume":"7 3","pages":"86-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20719018","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}
C Murdock, R Goldney, L Fisher, P Kent, S Walmsley
{"title":"A reduction in repeat falls in a private psychiatric hospital.","authors":"C Murdock, R Goldney, L Fisher, P Kent, S Walmsley","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Falls are of particular concern in psychiatric hospitals where many patients are taking psychotropic medication that may produce postural hypotension. The research considered falls in a private psychiatric hospital before and after the introduction of a hospital policy to measure blood pressure, both lying and standing, after a patient had fallen. Falls, and the injuries associated with them, occurred predominantly among elderly patients. The results of the study showed that the introduction of the policy resulted in more frequent measurement of blood pressure and was associated with fewer repeat falls.</p>","PeriodicalId":79537,"journal":{"name":"The Australian and New Zealand journal of mental health nursing","volume":"7 3","pages":"111-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20719575","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":"Structural impediments to effective communication.","authors":"J Horsfall","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Interestingly, none of the mental health nurse authors that I have consulted, understand the nurse-patient relationship as establishing the parameters for facilitative communication which, to a large extent, opens up or circumscribes further therapeutic possibilities. In other words, the nurse is seen as the initiator of both relationship development and communicative interactions; and the person of the nurse seems irrelevant in that they have skills to learn and techniques to apply. Furthermore, if communication is problematic, it seems to be assumed that such difficulties arise from the patient or from the inadequacy of the nurse's technique, and never from the personal attributes of the nurse.</p>","PeriodicalId":79537,"journal":{"name":"The Australian and New Zealand journal of mental health nursing","volume":"7 2","pages":"74-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20719014","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":"Emotional competence in professional communication.","authors":"T MacCulloch","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper explores the notion of emotional competence for professional practitioners and the impact of different levels of emotional competence on communication in mental health nursing practice. It comments on available approaches to assessing competence in this area and on factors that obstruct and impair such assessment. Practitioner awareness of both the concept of emotional competence and its assessment is examined at a professional and personal level. Strategies for the achievement and maintenance of effective communication and emotionally competent professional practice are proposed.</p>","PeriodicalId":79537,"journal":{"name":"The Australian and New Zealand journal of mental health nursing","volume":"7 2","pages":"60-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20719010","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 framework for practice with women survivors of childhood sexual abuse.","authors":"D Creedy, D Nizette, K Henderson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Women who are victims of prolonged childhood sexual abuse involving penetration, and physical and emotional abuse are more likely to develop major psychiatric distress. These survivors may use defence mechanisms to block out the past, and their distress may only come to the attention of health professionals at times of crisis. However, health practitioners do not routinely assess for a history of sexual abuse. This state of affairs is compounded by limited research on survivors of childhood sexual abuse and a readiness to label them with adult psychopathology. Such labels result from a failure to listen and from a willingness to blame, processes replicated from the dominant culture.</p>","PeriodicalId":79537,"journal":{"name":"The Australian and New Zealand journal of mental health nursing","volume":"7 2","pages":"67-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20719012","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 most precious thread.","authors":"S Champ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For me schizophrenia severely ruptured the relationship that I had enjoyed with myself prior to the illness. My sense of being in the world, my thought processes and, indeed, the very way my senses perceived the world would go through involuntary changes. I was plunged, at times, into a confusing and frightening world ruled by my own paranoias and delusions. Living with the ever-changing experience of schizophrenia over 23 years has changed my relationship with myself many times and in many ways. In this paper I want to describe a few of these changes that have helped me deal with schizophrenia and to reveal a little of an ongoing communication with myself that is a large part of my process of recovery. The nurses I most valued at that time were those who, rather than imposing their reality on me, helped me to explore where reality and well-being might exist for me.</p>","PeriodicalId":79537,"journal":{"name":"The Australian and New Zealand journal of mental health nursing","volume":"7 2","pages":"54-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20719008","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":"Reasonable charges.","authors":"M Clinton","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79537,"journal":{"name":"The Australian and New Zealand journal of mental health nursing","volume":"7 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20624840","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":"Advancing graduate psychiatric--mental health nursing education internationally.","authors":"D Gorman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79537,"journal":{"name":"The Australian and New Zealand journal of mental health nursing","volume":"7 1","pages":"49-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20624063","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}