Institute for Health and Social Science Research, School of Nursing and Midwifery, CQUniversity Australia, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia.
Int J Ment Health Nurs. 2011 Aug;20(4):237-46. doi: 10.1111/j.1447-0349.2010.00728.x. Epub 2011 Feb 22.
The difficulty recruiting and retaining an adequate mental health nursing workforce is acknowledged. The major in mental health nursing has been identified as a strategy to promote this specialist area of practice as desirable for students' future careers. Measuring its success requires the collection of detailed data about the structure, content, and uptake of these programmes. A survey was specifically developed to elicit descriptive information about the structure and content of a major in mental health nursing programmes. Fourteen universities participated in this research. Eight had implemented a major, one intends to do so in 2011, and five had abandoned or suspended their plans for the major. The findings suggest considerable variation in both structure and content of the major in mental health nursing throughout Australia. Students are required to commit to and commence the programme at differing stages, and there is a substantial variation in the theoretical and clinical content in mental health undertaken as a requirement for the major. The numbers of students taking the major is relatively small in most universities; however, the retention rates are favourable. These findings provide important data for discussion about the ideal structure and content of a major in mental health nursing.
招聘和留住足够的精神健康护理人员是公认的困难。精神健康护理专业已被确定为一种策略，以促进这一专业领域的实践，使其成为学生未来职业的理想选择。衡量其成功需要收集有关这些计划的结构、内容和参与情况的详细数据。专门开发了一项调查，以收集有关精神健康护理专业结构和内容的描述性信息。有 14 所大学参与了这项研究。其中 8 所大学已经实施了专业，1 所打算在 2011 年实施，5 所已经放弃或暂停了该专业的计划。研究结果表明，澳大利亚各地的精神健康护理专业在结构和内容上存在相当大的差异。学生需要在不同阶段承诺并开始该计划，而且作为该专业要求的精神健康理论和临床内容也有很大差异。大多数大学的专业学生人数相对较少；但是，保留率是有利的。这些发现为讨论精神健康护理专业的理想结构和内容提供了重要数据。
