Best Practices for Developing Specialty Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice.

Nursing specialization involves focusing on nursing practice in an identified specific area within the entire field of professional nursing. A defined specialty scope of practice statement and standards of professional practice, with accompanying competencies, are unique to each nursing specialty. These documents help assure continued understanding and recognition of nursing's diverse professional contributions.

Recovery-oriented practices of psychiatric-mental health nursing staff in an acute hospital setting.

Background: There is a national initiative to integrate recovery-oriented practices into the delivery of mental health services. Few empirical studies have been conducted to measure these practices in psychiatric-mental health (PMH) nursing, particularly in short-term acute hospital settings.

Objective: This study examined the reliability of the Recovery Self Assessment-Registered Nurse Version (RSA-RN) and explored recovery practices of PMH nurses and nursing staff in an acute treatment setting.

Developing a psychosocial rehabilitation treatment mall: an implementation model for mental health nurses.

The psychosocial rehabilitation "treatment mall" is a widely accepted method of providing active treatment to patients with serious mental illnesses in psychiatric hospital settings. As a multidisciplinary endeavor, it is important that all clinical disciplines are involved in the development and operation of treatment malls. However, related to their roles as both clinicians and as milieu managers, nurses are crucial in both the development and implementation of such malls.

Interdisciplinary treatment planning in inpatient settings: from myth to model.

The staffs of many mental health facilities describe their treatment planning processes as interdisciplinary, but as most practicing clinicians know, this is more of a myth than reality. Individualized, person-focused treatment planning itself is not a simple endeavor. Effective treatment planning is further complicated by the fact that most discipline training programs teach neither treatment planning nor interdisciplinary methods to provide care and treatment.

Self-reports of recovery-oriented practices of mental health nurses in state mental health institutes: development of a measure.

The focus of this study was to modify a measure of recovery practice for mental health nurses and explore nurses' self reports of recovery practices. Findings support the soundness of the Recovery Self Assessment-Registered Nurse Version (RSA-RN) as a self-assessment instrument designed to evaluate recovery-oriented nursing practice. More favorable perceptions of recovery practices were noted amongst older and more experienced nurses, those who had previous formal training or education in mental health recovery or psychiatric rehabilitation, and those who considered their facilities to be recovery-oriented.