The New Zealand development and trial of mental health nursing clinical indicators—a bicultural study
This paper describes the development and validation of bicultural clinical indicators that measure achievement of mental health nursing practice standards in New Zealand (ANZMCHN, 1995, Standards of practice for mental health nursing in New Zealand. ANZCMHN, Greenacres). A four-stage research design...
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Published in | International journal of nursing studies Vol. 40; no. 8; pp. 853 - 861 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Oxford
Elsevier Ltd
01.11.2003
Elsevier Science |
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Summary: | This paper describes the development and validation of bicultural clinical indicators that measure achievement of mental health nursing practice standards in New Zealand (ANZMCHN, 1995, Standards of practice for mental health nursing in New Zealand. ANZCMHN, Greenacres). A four-stage research design was utilised including focus groups, Delphi surveys, a pilot, and a national field study, with mental health nurses and consumers as participants. During the national field study, consumer files (
n=327) from 11 District Health Boards, and registered nurses (
n=422) completed an attitude questionnaire regarding the regularity of specific nursing and service activities. Results revealed a variation in the mean occurrence of the clinical indicators in consumer case notes of 18.5–89.9%. Five factors with good internal consistency, encompassing domains of mental health nursing required for best practice, were derived from analysis of the questionnaire. This study presents a research framework for developing culturally and clinically valid, reliable measures of clinical practice. |
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ISSN: | 0020-7489 1873-491X |
DOI: | 10.1016/S0020-7489(03)00074-9 |