Book chapter
Nursing and acute mental health settings
Nursing in Australia, pp.117-127
Routledge
2020
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Abstract
Graduate nurses are expected to 'hit the ground running', taking on complex care challenges in a stressful and fast-paced environment. This comprehensive yet accessible textbook provides expert guidance for students and commencing nurses on the contexts for their practice.
Part 1 presents a pragmatic insight into the intersection, tensions and complexities of practice and professional issues for Australian nurses. It outlines the nature of nursing roles and professional codes of conduct, national health priority areas and legal and ethical issues including the growing use of health informatics. There is an examination of the diverse career paths available in nursing, a focus on nurses' mental health and well-being and a special examination of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health issues. Part 2 unpacks key issues across a range of clinical contexts that will be a key resource for clinical practicums. Contexts covered include acute care, community nursing, paediatric nursing, mental health nursing and aged care. Part 3 examines the professional and practice issues of nursing in diverse, distinctive and emergent practice areas including aesthetic nursing, military nursing and international nursing with case studies and vignettes highlighting common issues and challenges.
Drawing on the expertise of a wide range of Australian clinical and academic nursing professionals, this text is a key reference for all nursing undergraduates seeking to enter successfully into the profession.
Part I: Nursing in the Australian Context
1. Nursing in Australia: Nurse education, divisions and professional standards
Peter Lewis, Nathan J. Wilson, Leanne Hunt and Lisa Whitehead
2. Nursing and tensions within the Australian health care system
Yvonne Parry and Didy Button
3. Nurses Delivering Care in A Digitised Environment
Jen Bichel-Findlay, Kathleen Dixon and Nathaniel Alexander
4. Career Pathways for Registered Nurses: An Expanding Horizon
Mahnaz Fanaian, Christine Chisengantambu-Winters, Irene Mayo and Amanda Johnson
5. Mental well-being and resilience of nurses
Lynette Cusack and Janie Brown
6. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
Faye McMillan, Linda Deravin and Glenda McDonald
Part II: Nursing Practice in Australia: contemporary issues
Part II Section I: Nursing in acute care contexts
7. Perioperative Nursing
Christine Minty-Walker, Paul L Donohoe, Suzanne E Hadlow and Nathan J Wilson
8. Nursing Adults in General Medical or Surgical Contexts
Gladis Kabil, Sheeba Thomas, Peter Lewis, Kathryn Steirn and Amanda Johnson
9. Critical Care Nursing
Leanne Hunt and Sharon-Ann Shunker
10. Neonatal nursing: Critically sick babies require unique nursing skills
Evalotte Mörelius and Mandie Jane Foster
11. Paediatric nursing in the acute care setting
Peter Lewis, Deborah Ireson and Deborah Brooke
12. Nursing and Acute Mental Health Settings
Richard Lakeman, Iain Graham, Lucy Nuzum, Diane Russ and Stephen Van Vorst
Part II Section II: Nursing in community and home-based contexts
13. Community Nursing
Lisa Whitehead and Kylie McCullough
14. Nursing and people with intellectual disability
Nathan J. Wilson, Virginia Howie and Gail Tomsic
15. Child and Family Health Nursing
Cathrine Fowler and Deborah Stockton
16. The role of the Community Mental Health Nurse
Rhys Jones and Sheila Mortimer-Jones
Part II Section III: Nursing in other and cross-clinical contexts
17. Rehabilitation nursing
Julie Pryor and Murray Fisher
18. Nursing in Aged Care Contexts
Sarah Yeun-Sim Jeong, Sharyn Hunter and Larissa McIntyre
19. Remote Area Nursing
Sue Lenthall, Terrie Ivanhoe and Kylie Stothers
20. Sexuality and sexual health: professional issues for nurses
Marika Guggisberg
Part 3: Diverse and Distinctive Practice Areas
21. Nursing and people with cosmetic and related concerns
Elissa J O’Keefe and Robin Curran
22. Nursing in the Australian Correctional System
Linda Starr and Claire Newman
23. Women’s Health Nursing
Charrlotte Seib and Debra Anderson
24. Nursing Men
Andrew Smith, Blake Peck and Daniel Terry
25. Global Nursing
Deborah Kirk and Stephanie Wheeler
26. Nursing and the Military
Andrew Ormsby
27. General Practice Nursing
Elizabeth J Halcomb
28. Occupational Health Nursing
Kim Oliver and Bernadette Cameron
Nathan J. Wilson is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Western Sydney University. Nathan is a registered nurse with over 30 years’ experience in working with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families as a nurse, manager, clinical specialist, clinical educator, applied researcher and independent consultant. Nathan’s applied research is focussed on enhancing the health, wellbeing and social participation of people with intellectual and developmental disability, with an underlying emphasis on chronic illness, men’s health, masculinity, participation and social inclusion. He has published over 90 scientific papers about disability and regularly presents his findings at national and international conferences.
Peter Lewis is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Academic Workforce at the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the Western Sydney University. Peter has more than 20 years' experience as a registered nurse in paediatrics with a focus on chronic illness and disability. His current research interest is in the nursing care of people with intellectual disability.
Leanne Hunt is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing and Deputy Director, Clinical Education (Nursing), in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the Western Sydney University and Registered Nurse at Liverpool Hospital Intensive Care Unit. Leanne began nursing in 1992 as an RN progressing to CNC (trauma) and NUM 1. Leanne worked in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in paediatric cardiothoracic intensive care for 2 years. She has 10 years of education and research experience and is the current chair of the Critical Care Research in Collaboration & Evidence Translation (CCRICET) research group. Leanne is also an affiliate member of the Centre for Applied Nursing Research (CANR), Centre for Oral Health Outcomes & Research Translation (COHORT) and the Ingham Institute of Applied Medical Research. Leanne’s research interests include clinical practice experience, critical care and nursing education.
Lisa Whitehead is a Professor of Nursing Research and Associate Dean Research, School of Nursing and Midwifery at Edith Cowan University. Lisa’s research centres on improving health outcomes for people living with chronic conditions, self-management interventions and working with families to support the management of chronic conditions. Engagement with clinicians and conducting research in real world settings underpin all of her research activities with the goal of implementing evidence-based change into practice.
Details
- Title
- Nursing and acute mental health settings
- Creators
- Richard Lakeman (Author) - Southern Cross UniversityIain Graham (Author) - Southern Cross UniversityLucy Nuzum (Author) - Southern Cross UniversityDiane Russ (Author) - Southern Cross University, School of Health and Human SciencesStephen Van Vorst (Author) - Southern Cross University
- Contributors
- Nathan Wilson (Editor of compilation)Peter Lewis (Editor of compilation)Leanne Hunt (Editor of compilation)Lisa Whitehead (Editor of compilation)
- Publication Details
- Nursing in Australia, pp.117-127
- Publisher
- Routledge; London
- Number of pages
- 22
- Identifiers
- 991012893900202368
- Academic Unit
- Nursing; School of Health and Human Sciences; Emeritus Faculty; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter