Encounters with difference: Mental health nurses and Indigenous Australian users of mental health services

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 922-929
Author(s):  
Luke Molloy ◽  
Kim Walker ◽  
Richard Lakeman ◽  
David Lees
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Indigenous Australian ◽  
Mental Health Nurses

Community Mental Health Nursing in Alberta, Canada: An Oral History

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geertje Boschma
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Outpatient Services ◽  
Mental Health Nurses ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
Community Mental Health Nurses

Community mental health nurses had a central role in the construction of new rehabilitative practices and community mental health services in the 1960s and 1970s. The purpose of this article is, first, to explore how nurses understood and created their new role and identity in the turbulent context of deinstitutionalization. The development of after care services for patients discharged from Alberta Hospital in Ponoka (AH-Ponoka), a large mental institution in Calgary, in the Canadian province of Alberta, will be used as a case study. I specifically focus on the establishment of outpatient services in a new psychiatric department at Foothills General Hospital in Calgary. Second, I examine how deinstitutionalization itself shaped community mental health nurses’ work. Oral history interviews with nurses and other mental health professionals, who had a central role in this transformation process, provide a unique lens through which to explore this social change. The article concludes that new rehabilitative, community-based mental health services can better be understood as a transformation of former institutional practices rather than as a definite break with them.

An inductive content analysis of formative feedback given by lived experience assessors in pre-registration mental health nurse education

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-42
Author(s):  
Gemma Stacey ◽  
Mark Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Student Nurses ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Written Feedback ◽  
Mental Health Nurses ◽  
Content Type

Purpose In the assessment of student nurses, there is limited research exploring why the contributions of people with lived experience (LE) have an impact on learning. The purpose of this paper is to compare the nature of feedback provided to students by people who have both worked in and used mental health services. Design/methodology/approach To explore the nature of qualitative student feedback generated from an assessment involving people who have experience of using and working in mental health services. Therefore, an inductive content analysis conducted on the formative written feedback provided to students following a simulated assessment. Findings The results demonstrate significant similarities in the feedback provided by those with LE of using and working within mental health services, suggesting a shared conceptualisation of professionalism. Research limitations/implications The research indicates the potential socialisation of professionals and service users to not only the assessment process but also the professional expectations of mental health nurses. These findings resonate with Barker et al.’s (1999) description of the “pseudo ordinary me” and emphasise the principles and importance of person-centred care. Originality/value The paper highlights that assessment approaches which incorporate feedback from people with LE offer a vehicle to demonstrate and explore how attributes, subjectively associated with professionalism, can be recognised and developed by student mental health nurses.

Nurse prescribing and the enhancement of mental health services

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (11) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Nolan ◽  
Eleanor Bradley ◽  
Neil Carr
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Prescribing Practices ◽  
Mental Health Nurses ◽  
Care Plans ◽  
Nurse Prescribing ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Drug Treatments

AbstractMental health nurses are relative latecomers to nurse prescribing. This is primarily because nurse prescribing has been seen as more appropriate for general nurses, particularly those working in the community or primary care. Pharmacists and psychiatrists were concerned about the complexity of prescribing for clients with mental health problems and felt that the training of mental health nurses and their clinical experience did not fit them to take on a prescribing role. These, and other impressions, may have influenced which groups of nurses were first selected to become nurse prescribers. However, recent studies have indicated that mental health nurses add considerably to the effectiveness of assessments and care plans, and that they are in an ideal position to integrate drug treatments with a wide range of non-pharmacological therapies knowledgeably, safely, effectively and in a manner that is acceptable to the patient. They have also been found to have an important role to play in monitoring the side effects of drugs and in providing education about medication, and in maintaining a therapeutic alliance with clients on long-term drug treatment. Whatever the limitations, mental health nurses as prescribers may still be deemed to have by some professional groups, and even by themselves, at this stage in the evolution of nurse prescribing, it is now inevitable that they will play a significant part in the overall improvement of mental health services during this decade. They are likely to challenge the existing prescribing practices and help in identifying the conditions under which medication is most therapeutic.

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