Understanding collaborative and coordinated care in a mental health and well-being context: Essential elements for effective service integration.

Multiple system reforms in Australia, including the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), are changing mental health (MH) and disability-related service provision, whilst policy drivers continue to require service integration. This has necessitated service providers discovering new ways of working collaboratively to achieve an integrated model of care. This qualitative study examined what does and does not work to support collaborative and coordinated care (CCC), as essential components of service integration.

Educating emergency department nurses about trauma informed care for people presenting with mental health crisis: a pilot study.

Background: Practicing with trauma informed care (TIC) can strengthen nurses' knowledge about the association of past trauma and the impact of trauma on the patient's current mental illness. An aim of TIC is to avoid potentially re-traumatising a patient during their episode of care. A TIC education package can provide nurses with content that describes the interplay of neurological, biological, psychological, and social effects of trauma that may reduce the likelihood of re-traumatisation.

Child and parental surveys about pre-hospitalization information provision.

Background: There is little available information about what children and parents would like to know about a forthcoming hospitalization and what they currently receive.

Methods: The current study was a survey of 102 children between the ages of 6 and 10 years and their parents recruited either from the Recovery Unit following day surgery or from the wards following overnight admissions at Sydney Children's Hospital, Australia. Information was obtained about each child's experience in hospital, the nature and format of information that they had received prior to the admission, and what information the child/parent thought would be helpful to receive.

Preceptorship in psychiatric nursing: an impact evaluation from an Australian perspective.

The importance of preceptorship in ensuring positive clinical experiences for undergraduates has been widely acknowledged in the literature. This is particularly the case for mental health nursing due to the negative attitudes nursing students tend to hold towards this area of practice. The Centre for Psychiatric Nursing Research and Practice (CPNRP), introduced a subject: Preceptorship in Psychiatric Nursing, to facilitate the ability of clinicians to undertake the preceptorship role confidently and competently.

Transition to mental health nursing through specialist graduate nurse programs in mental health: a review of the literature.

Specialist graduate nurse programs (GNPs) in psychiatric/mental health nursing have been widely implemented across public healthcare services throughout Victoria, Australia. Broadly, these programs aim to assist newly graduated nurses during the transition from nursing student to registered nurse. This paper presents a review of the literature relevant to GNPs; specifically focusing on graduate transition.