Exploring the 'citizen organization': an evaluation of a regional Australian community-based palliative care service model.

Background: Little Haven is a rural, community-based specialist palliative care service in Gympie, Australia. Its goals are to provide highest quality of care, support and education for those experiencing or anticipating serious illness and loss. Families and communities work alongside clinical services, with community engagement influencing compassionate care and support of dying people, their families and communities.

The impact of automated medicine dispensing units on nursing workflow: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Automated medication dispensing cabinets are ubiquitous in hospitals in the United States and prevalent in Canada, but they are still relatively new to health services elsewhere. The automation of medication management using distributed dispensing units is aimed at improving stock management and patient safety; however, the evidence for the latter remains equivocal, and the impact on nursing workflow is poorly understood.

Objective: This study evaluated the impact on the nursing workflow of a distributed automated medication dispensing system.

The Capabilities of Nurse Educators (CONE) questionnaire: Development and evaluation.

Background: To inspire excellent clinicians to become educators, the role of the nurse educator needs to be more fully defined. Capabilities rather than competencies may better describe advanced professional practice.

Objectives: To develop an effective measure of the multifaceted complexity of the nurse educator role, which will enable nurse educators to (1) self-assess their capability set, (2) identify areas for professional development, and (3) evaluate professional development interventions.

Learning essentials: what graduates of mental health nursing programmes need to know from an industry perspective.

Aims And Objectives: To explore the perspectives of nursing directors in mental health in Queensland, Australia, regarding the skills and attributes of graduates of comprehensive nursing programme to provide an industry perspective and thus augment knowledge from theoretical and professional dimensions.

Background: There is a worldwide shortage of appropriately qualified nurses with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to work effectively in mental health services. Within Australia, this has been well documented since the introduction of comprehensive nursing education.

Things you can learn from books: exploring the therapeutic potential of eating disorder memoirs.

This paper explores the potential benefits that books, and specifically memoirs, might offer mental health students, positing that first-person testimonials might make the complex experiences of a mental health challenge, in this case, eating disorders, accessible to learners. The paper presents a pedagogical approach, based on transformative learning, to assist in encouraging the development of a recovery approach in students. Transformative learning is a pedagogy that is interested in problematic practices that keep afflicting an area, such as the imbalanced focus on learning illness, rather than well-being, and in pondering and revising the educational solutions.