Brokering Community Engagement: Proactive Strategies for Supporting Indigenous Australians with Mental Health Problems.

This qualitative study explored the experiences of mental health employees working with Indigenous clients living with mental illness. Interviews were conducted with 20 mental health workers to identify strategies they adopt to facilitate community engagement with Indigenous clients. Using a thematic analysis approach, 'Brokering community engagement' was the umbrella theme from which two subthemes related to community engagement for the service and clients emerged (1) enabling connections -community and family; and (2) recovery and reconnecting with community.

Older persons' perceptions and experiences of community palliative care: a systematic review of qualitative evidence protocol.

The objective of this systematic review is to identify and synthesize the best available qualitative evidence on how older persons perceive and experience community palliative care.The specific question is: What are older persons' perceptions and experiences of community palliative care?

The Role of the Mental Health Worker in a Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative for Indigenous Australians.

Purpose: To explore the experiences of mental health workers and perceptions of their role and the scope of their work.

Design And Methods: Qualitative design. Twenty interviews were conducted with mental health workers.

Validation of the professional practice environment scale in nurse educators in hospitals.

Aim: To report an assessment of the psychometric properties of the Professional Practice Environment (PPE) scale in a sample of Australian nurse educators in acute care hospitals.

Background: Although nurse educators are important in an enabling work environment, there has been no reported exploration of their satisfaction with work in acute care hospitals.

Discussion: The factor structure and internal consistency of the PPE scale were consistent with Erickson's eight-factor model of the items, indicating the appropriateness of the scale as an assessment tool to measure the PPE of nurse educators.