Goodwin Val, Happell Brenda
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Victoria University, Melbourne.
Policy Polit Nurs Pract. 2007 Nov;8(4):276-84. doi: 10.1177/1527154408315640.
Consumer and carer participation in mental health delivery is now enshrined in Australian Government policy. However, strategies assisting in implementing this vision have not been explored. Nurses are crucial to the mental health workforce, both in numbers and by virtue of the therapeutic relationship. The willingness of nurses to encourage consumer and carer participation is therefore essential for implementation of this policy. This article presents part 1 of the findings of a qualitative study exploring nurses' opinions regarding consumer and carer participation. Data were analyzed using a content-analysis approach, assisted by the software package NVivo. The themes explicated were as follows: Consumer and carer participation-a help or a hindrance? Encouragement-an important role for nurses; and communication-a gift of nursing. These findings highlight the unique and important role nurses can play in encouraging participation and explore some of the issues involved if that role is to become a reality.
消费者和护理人员参与心理健康服务现已载入澳大利亚政府政策。然而，尚未探索有助于实现这一愿景的策略。护士在心理健康服务人员队伍中至关重要，无论是在数量上还是凭借其治疗关系。因此，护士鼓励消费者和护理人员参与的意愿对于该政策的实施至关重要。本文呈现了一项定性研究结果的第一部分，该研究探讨了护士对消费者和护理人员参与的看法。数据采用内容分析法进行分析，并借助NVivo软件包辅助。阐述的主题如下：消费者和护理人员的参与——是帮助还是阻碍？鼓励——护士的重要角色；以及沟通——护理的一项天赋。这些发现凸显了护士在鼓励参与方面可以发挥的独特而重要的作用，并探讨了如果这一角色要成为现实所涉及的一些问题。
