Back to the future: A practice led transition program from Assistant in Nursing to Enrolled Nurse.

Continuing professional development is an essential element in professional nursing practice. In our Hospital and Health service, a gap in existing nursing pathways was identified for Assistants in Nursing (AINs), who wished to further their career in nursing and progress to Enrolled Nurse (EN). There is also little in the literature that addresses Assistants in Nursing wishing to progress their career to Enrolled Nurses.

Keeping the flame alight: understanding and enhancing interest in mental health nursing as a career.

Mental health nursing is not regarded favourably by most Bachelor of Nursing (BN) students as a desirable career option. However, little is known about what attracts those students who do become interested. The primary aim of the current study was to explore BN students' reasons for choosing to undertake the major in mental health nursing and the degree to which completing the subject: "Recovery for mental health nursing practice", confirmed that interest or otherwise.

'Things you can't learn from books': teaching recovery from a lived experience perspective.

Mental health policy in Australia is committed to the development of recovery-focused services and facilitating consumer participation in all aspects of mental health service delivery. Negative attitudes of mental health professionals have been identified as a major barrier to achieving these goals. Although the education of health professionals has been identified as a major strategy, there is limited evidence to suggest that consumers are actively involved in this education process.

The extension of Colaizzi's method of phenomenological enquiry.

Aim: Originating from unfunded research undertaken in 2007, this paper offers an overview of Colaizzi's method of phenomenological analysis and proposes an extension to the original seven step approach enhancing rigour and, expanding information sources to enhance in-depth descriptions of phenomena for study.

Background: The focus on human experience emanates from the human sciences in which the everyday lived world of humans constitutes the ontological and epistemological focus of enquiry - understanding of human experiences. Since the emergence of phenomenology as a method of enquiry, advances in phenomenological thought and research methods have emerged.

Getting that piece of paper: mental health nurses' experience of undertaking doctoral studies in Victoria, Australia.

The aim of this study was to explore the experience of mental health nurses undertaking doctoral studies. The study was conducted in Victoria, Australia. A descriptive-exploratory approach to inquiry was used for this study.

Doctoral graduates in mental health nursing in Victoria, Australia: the doctoral experience and contribution to scholarship.

The last decade has seen a substantial increase in the number of psychiatric or mental health nurses in Victoria, Australia who hold doctoral qualifications. The literature refers to the importance of scholarship for the professional development and recognition of nursing as a discipline. However, there is a paucity of literature addressing the contribution of nursing doctoral graduates to scholarship in mental health nursing or indeed the broader nursing profession.

AANA journal course. Update for nurse anesthetists. A common sense approach to hypothermia.

Hypothermia frequently is considered inadvertent in the perioperative setting. The preservation of vital body heat has been an issue since the 1800s. This article provides a select review of the causes of hypothermia and the methods for prevention of hypothermia during the perioperative period.