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Volume 21 Issue 1 - 2006

Advances in Contemporary Mental Health Nursing

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iii Foreword: Consumers, Practice, Interventions and Education in Mental Health Nursing
Sandra Talley

vii Preface: Mental Health Nursing for Individual, Community and Organisational Benefit
Nicholas G Procter RN, RPN, BA, GradDipEd

Consumers And Mental Health

1 Guest Editorial: Reason, Commonsense and Imagination in the Service of our Shared Humanity
Kenneth Walsh PhD

4 In Our Own Words
Consumers' views on the reality of consumer participation in mental health careVal Goodwin, Brenda Happell

14 Consumer Evaluation of a Mental Health Liaison Nurse Service in the Emergency Department
Timothy Wand, Peter Schaecken

22 Moving Toward Culturally Sensitive Services for Indigenous People
A non-Indigenous mental health nursing perspectiveAnthony (Tony) P O'Brien RN PhD

32 A Randomised Controlled Trial Testing the Impact of Exercise on Cognitive Symptoms and Disability of Residents with Dementia
John Stevens RN PhD, Mark Killeen

Mental Health Nursing Practice

41 Guest Editorial: Defining Our Scope of Practice
Stephen Elsom

43 Attitudes of Registered Psychiatric Nurses Towards Patients Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder
Cecil Deans, Elizabeth Meocevic

50 Workplace Practices with Mental Health Implications Impacts on Recruitment and Retention of Overseas Nurses in the Context of Nursing Shortages
Akram Omeri

62 Best Practice Management Strategies for Mental Health Nurses During the Clinical Application of Civil Commitment
An OverviewBrian G McKenna, Alexanda IF Simpson, John H Coverdale

71 Violence Against Psychiatric Nurses
Sensitive research as science and interventionMarilyn Lewis Lannza, Robert Zeiss, Jill Rierdan

85 Community-Based Postpartum Depression Screening Within the First Month After Delivery
June Andrews Horowitz

94 The Use of Psychotropic Medications with Breastfeeding Women
Applying the available evidenceKim Usher, Kim Foster

103 Dementia Related Aggression in the Acute Sector
Is a Code Black really the answer?Jacqueline Jones CRNHC, Sally Borbasi RN BEd(Nsing) (UNE) MA(Educ: Research)(Macquarie) PhD (Sydney), Alan Nankivell, Craig Lockwood

Mental Health Nursing Education

117 Guest Editorial: Reflections on Mental Health Nursing Education
Dianne Wynaden

120 Managing the 'Unmanageable'
Training staff in the use of dialectical behaviour therapy for borderline personality disorderMike Hazelton, Rachel Rossiter, Julie Milner

131 Creating Supportive Environments for Mental Health Promotion in the Workplace
Patricia Barkway

142 Mental Health Nursing in New Zealand Primary Health Care
Anthony J O'Brien, Frances A Hughes, Jacquie D Kidd

153 Educating Mental Health Nurses in Clinical Settings
Tackling the challengeMichelle Cleary, Garry Walter

Epilogue

160 Advances in Contemporary Mental Health Nursing
A Continuous ProcessBarbara E Wolfe


Book Reviews

157 Mental Health Care for People with Learning Disabilities
Helena Priest and Michael Gibbs
Reviewed by Jan Walmsley



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Volume 34/1
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Advances in Contemporary Modeling of Clinical Nursing Care
Vol 35/1, 1st Apr 2010


Advances in Contemporary Mental Health Nursing – Second Edition
Vol 34/1, 1st Dec 2009


Advances in Contemporary Nursing and Gender
Vol 33/2, 1st Oct 2009


Advances in Contemporary Nurse Education
Vol 32/1-2, 1st Apr 2009


Advances in Contemporary Nursing and Midwifery History in Australasia
Vol 30/2, 1st Oct 2008


Advances in Contemporary Transcultural Nursing (2nd edn)
Vol 28/1-2, 15th Apr 2008


Advances in Contemporary Palliative and Supportive Care
Vol 27/1, 1st Dec 2007


Advances in Contemporary Aged Care: Retirement to End of Life
Vol 26/2, 1st Oct 2007


Advances in Contemporary General Practice Nursing: Role of the Practice Nurse
Vol 26/1, 1st Aug 2007


Advances in Contemporary Nurse Recruitment and Retention
Vol 24/2, 1st Apr 2007


Advances in Contemporary Community and Family Health Care
Vol 23/2, 1st Jan 2007


Advances in Contemporary Indigenous Health Care
Vol 22/2, 1st Sep 2006


Advances in Contemporary Nursing & Interpersonal Violence
Vol 21/2, 1st May 2006


Advances in Contemporary Mental Health Nursing
Vol 21/1, 1st Mar 2006


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Making Evidence Based Practice a Reality for Mental Health Nursing


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Assessing needs of people with cancer


Exploring nurses' storied accounts of practice


Let's Talk About Sex


Nurses management of post-operative pain


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