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New Zealand development and trial of mental health nursing clinical indicators - a bicultural study
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posted on 2003-11-01, 00:00 authored by A O'Brien, D Hardy, E Morrison-Ngatai, Cadeyrn GaskinCadeyrn Gaskin, J Boddy, N McNulty, T Ryan, G SkewsThis 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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International journal of nursing studiesVolume
40Issue
8Pagination
853 - 861Publisher
PergamonLocation
Oxford, EnglandPublisher DOI
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0020-7489eISSN
1873-491XLanguage
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal articleCopyright notice
2003, Elsevier ScienceUsage metrics
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