TY - JOUR
KW - Attitude of Health Personnel
KW - Cost-Benefit Analysis
KW - Emergency Nursing/education/organization & administration
KW - Emergency Services, Psychiatric/organization & administration
KW - Health Services Needs and Demand
KW - Holistic Health
KW - Humans
KW - Models, Nursing
KW - Nurse's Role
KW - Nursing Assessment/organization & administration
KW - Nursing Evaluation Research
KW - Nursing Methodology Research
KW - Nursing Staff, Hospital/education/organization & administration/psychology
KW - Nursing Theory
KW - Patient-Centered Care
KW - Philosophy, Nursing
KW - Psychiatric Nursing/education/organization & administration
KW - Qualitative Research
KW - Questionnaires
KW - Triage/organization & administration
KW - Victoria
AU - N. Sands
A1 - 
AB - Mental health triage/duty services play a pivotal role in the current framework for mental health service delivery in Victoria and other states of Australia. Australia is not alone in its increasing reliance on mental health triage as a model of psychiatric service provision; at a global level, there appears to be an emerging trend to utilize mental health triage services staffed by nurses as a cost-effective means of providing mental health care to large populations. At present, nurses comprise the greater proportion of the mental health triage workforce in Victoria and, as such, are performing the majority of point-of-entry mental health assessment across the state. Although mental health triage/duty services have been operational for nearly a decade in some regional healthcare sectors of Victoria, there is little local or international research on the topic, and therefore a paucity of established theory to inform and guide mental health triage practice and professional development. The discussion in this paper draws on the findings and recommendations of PhD research into mental health triage nursing in Victoria, to raise discussion on the need to develop theoretical models to inform and guide nursing practice. The paper concludes by presenting a provisional model for mental health triage nursing practice.
BT - Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing
C5 - Education & Workforce
CP - 3
CY - England
DO - 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2007.01069.x
IS - 3
JF - Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing
N2 - Mental health triage/duty services play a pivotal role in the current framework for mental health service delivery in Victoria and other states of Australia. Australia is not alone in its increasing reliance on mental health triage as a model of psychiatric service provision; at a global level, there appears to be an emerging trend to utilize mental health triage services staffed by nurses as a cost-effective means of providing mental health care to large populations. At present, nurses comprise the greater proportion of the mental health triage workforce in Victoria and, as such, are performing the majority of point-of-entry mental health assessment across the state. Although mental health triage/duty services have been operational for nearly a decade in some regional healthcare sectors of Victoria, there is little local or international research on the topic, and therefore a paucity of established theory to inform and guide mental health triage practice and professional development. The discussion in this paper draws on the findings and recommendations of PhD research into mental health triage nursing in Victoria, to raise discussion on the need to develop theoretical models to inform and guide nursing practice. The paper concludes by presenting a provisional model for mental health triage nursing practice.
PP - England
PY - 2007
SN - 1351-0126; 1351-0126
SP - 243
EP - 249
EP - 
T1 - Mental health triage: Towards a model for nursing practice
T2 - Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing
TI - Mental health triage: Towards a model for nursing practice
U1 - Education & Workforce
U2 - 17430447
U3 - 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2007.01069.x
VL - 14
VO - 1351-0126; 1351-0126
Y1 - 2007
ER -