Despite rising international needs for mental health practitioners, the mental health nursing
workforce is underutilized. This is in part due to limited understandings of their roles …

Mental health nursing requires a specialist range of capabilities and values. In Australian
contexts, the preparation of nurses to work in mental health settings has attracted criticism …

Background The shortage of psychiatric nurses is a major healthcare challenge. Lack of
interest (LOI) contributes to the shortage of psychiatric nurses. Nonetheless, there are limited …

In this paper, we propose that mental health nursing has become a zombie category, at least
in the Australian context. Mental health nursing is a concept that has lost any real …

Psychiatric nurses often experience associative stigma. Associative stigma may impact
psychiatric nurses' views of their professional identity which ultimately impacts the health …

This review explores the transformative impact of sensory modulation interventions in acute
inpatient mental health care setting utilising meta-ethnography. The methodology by Noblit …

Abstract Knowledge of how nurses are described in recruitment advertisements can aid
assessment of the current status of professional psychiatric-mental health nursing and …

Aim The aim of this study was to describe how nurses' dialogue compares with that of
doctors in the Australian reality television program Emergency and to explain how this …

Objectives This study explores older people's use of a free bus service in Wollongong,
Australia. The research focus was on understanding the experiences of people over the age …

Nurses play a crucial role in mental healthcare provision. Like many countries, Australian
nursing students are educated in comprehensive pre‐registration programmes which …