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Caring for People with Mental Health Problems Who Present at the Emergency Department: a Nurse Educator's Journey

Thompson, Charlotte (Victoria University of Wellington, 2005)

The New Zealand Emergency Department (ED) nurse is faced daily with the challenge of caring for patients of all ages with a wide variety of presenting complaints. Courses are available for ED specialty work such as trauma ...
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in Psychosis; Relevance to Mental Health Nurses

Narbey, Nick (Victoria University of Wellington, 2001)

The background to this research report is my personal and professional belief that more can be done in caring for people who experience psychosis. Psychosis can be a life-threatening illness; about one in ten young men ...
Colonisation: the Experience of a Psychiatric Nurse Through the Lens of Reflective Autobiography

Ramsamy, Krishnasamy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)

The oppression of colonization lives on in the daily lives of colonized people. It is vital for us as nurses to understand the effects of that oppression, as well as the restrictive impacts, and dislocation from one's land ...
The Concept of Hope in Gestalt Therapy: Its Usefulness for Ameliorating Vicarious Traumatisation

Pack, Margaret (Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)

Hope is intrinsic to the work of psychotherapy yet it remains implicit in much of what we do as psychotherapists. The concept of hope is discussed in this article in relation to the vicarious traumatisation literature. I ...
Critical Case Study: Supporting the New Graduate Nurse Entering Specialist Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Practice

Haggarty, Carmel Elizabeth Anne (Victoria University of Wellington, 2000)

This critical case study was undertaken for the purposes of illuminating information relating to new graduate nurses’ experiences in their first clinical placement, in order to consider ways an established entry to practice ...
If a Client is Operating From a Samoan World View How can S/He be Holistically and Appropriately Treated Under the Western Medical Model?

Esera, Folole Iaeli (Victoria University of Wellington, 2001)

This paper is an analysis of the cultural and traditional factors that I believe are essential considerations in the treatment of Samoan people who have been diagnosed with a mental illness. Just as important to any ...
Impact Evaluation of a 'Brief Intervention Program' for Clients who Deliberately Self-Harm

Aquin, Edward Herman (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

Deliberate self harm (DSH) and suicide rates are recognised internationally, nationally and locally as an increasing trend. The financial and emotional cost to society highlights the need for providing services that aim ...
An Innovation in Primary Mental Health Care: The Mid Valley Well-Being Service

Pack, Margaret (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

In 2004-5 a new primary health organisation (PHO) project was established that aimed to improve access to equitable health care for the residents of three suburban areas of Lower Hutt, Wellington serviced by three medical ...
An Interpretation of Four Men's Experiences of Suicidality

Phillips, Brian (Victoria University of Wellington, 2004)

Mental health nurses are frequently called upon to care and provide intervention for suicidal men. While there is substantial literature on male suicide, far less is known about the understandings men have of their ...
Mad Bad or Sad: Caring for the Mentally Disordered in the Court Environment, from a Nurse's Perspective

Smith, Paul (Victoria University of Wellington, 2004)

This paper examines the difficulties health professionals face daily when providing care for the mentally disordered offender in the court environment. The role ofthe court nurse is to provide care for people with mental ...
Marking Space: a Literary Psychogeography of the Practice of a Nurse Artist

Martin, Heather Edwina (2006)

The thesis as a production of disciplined work presented in a creative style is congruent with performance and presentation best practice in community arts. As a practising nurse artist I create spaces of alternate ...
Nursing an Adolescent in an Adult Inpatient Mental Health Unit

Valette, Diane (Victoria University of Wellington, 2002)

In New Zealand many adolescents in need of acute mental health care are admitted to adult mental health units. This situation results in mental health nurses working in the inpatient setting, working with increasing numbers ...
Personal and Professional Choices, Tensions, and Boundaries in the Lives of Lesbian Psychiatric Mental Health Nurses

Walsh, Christine Mary Miriam (Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)

This study breaks new ground in articulating how sexual identity impacts on the therapeutic relationship between the client and the lesbian nurse in psychiatric mental health nursing. There is little consideration given ...
Practice Nurses Educational Needs in Mental Health: a Descriptive Exploratory Survey

Prince, Anne Patricia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

Background-Large numbers of patients see practice nurses (PNs) daily for their health care. Many of these patients will have a mental illness or a mental health (MH) need. International research suggests that the practice ...
The Prevalance of Depression amongst People with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease on Long Term Oxygen Therapy

Mold, Emma (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Aim: To determine the prevalence of depression amongst people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) on long term oxygen therapy (LTOT) and examine the differences and relationships between depressed and not ...
Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing: Positioning Undergraduate Education

Matheson, Sandra (Victoria university of Wellington, 2002)

The effectiveness of undergraduate comprehensive nursing programmes to prepare nurses to practice in the field of mental health is of concern to practitioners, educators and service providers. A crisis in the recruitment ...
Pushing the Boundaries: Relationships With Adolescents

McLean, Julia Margaret (Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)

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 ...
Reducing Metabolic Syndrome in Patients with a Severe Mental Illness in a Forensic Unit in New Zealand: Perceived Barriers for Registered Nurses

Guthrie, Sarah Jane (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

The New Zealand Health Strategy in 2000 highlighted significant health inequalities and the need to improve the health status of individuals with severe mental illness (Ministry of Health, 2000). Mental health users die ...
Seclusion Management in an Acute In-Patient Unit

Mosley, Barbara Joy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2005)

Trends in modern day mental health facilities have been towards the least restrictive environment with emphasis on patients’ rights, but these rights have to be balanced against the safety of both the patients themselves ...
Shared Status and Advocating Practices: Nurses Who Work with Clients Who Have a Co-existing Intellectual Disability and Mental Health Problem

Dorofaeff, Michael John (Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)

This research is informed by the interpretive phenomenology of van Manen, and explores the lived experience of nursing fiom the perspective of nurses who provide care for people with a co-existing intellectual disability ...