Usher, Kim J., Luck, Lauretta D., Foster, Kim N., Elder, R., Evans, K., Nizette, D.
Psychotropic medications play an important role in the treatment of mental illness. The nurse plays a pivotal role in medication administration and patient education. It is also important for the...
Usher, Kim J., Luck, Lauretta D., Foster, Kim N., Elder, R., Evans, K., Nizette, D.
Communication is a skill that underpins all mental health nursing interventions. Self-harm and suicidal behaviour need to be differentiated. Assessment of client risk behaviours is an essential part...
Usher, Kim J., Luck, Lauretta D., Foster, Kim N.
Psychotropic medications play an important role in the treatment of mental illness. The nurse plays a pivotal role in medication administration and patient education. It is also important for the...
Usher, Kim J., Luck, Lauretta D., Foster, Kim N.
Communication is a skill that underpins all mental health nursing interventions. Self-harm and suicidal behaviour need to be differentiated. Assessment of client risk behaviours is an essential part...
Usher, Kim J., Luck, Lauretta D.
PRN, or 'as needed', medications are administered frequently by mental health nurses in psychiatric inpatient settings to manage difficult and disturbed behaviour when other strategies fail. Research...
Nursing and the development of nursing education in Fiji (2004)
Usher, Kim J., Nadakuitavuki, Rigieta, Rabuka, Iloi, Tollefson, Joanne M., Luck, Lauretta D.
Fiji is one of Australia's Pacific neighbours. Nursing and nurse education in that country is at an exciting stage of development. The Ministry of Health in Fiji has recently introdeuced new nursing...
Usher, Kim J., Luck, Lauretta D.
PRN, or 'as needed', medications are administered frequently by mental health nurses in psychiatric inpatient settings to manage difficult and disturbed behaviour when other strategies fail. Research...
Nursing and the development of nursing education in Fiji (2004)
Usher, Kim J., Nadakuitavuki, Rigieta, Rabuka, Iloi, Tollefson, Joanne M., Luck, Lauretta D.
Fiji is one of Australia's Pacific neighbours. Nursing and nurse education in that country is at an exciting stage of development. The Ministry of Health in Fiji has recently introdeuced new nursing...
PRN psychotropic medications: The need for nursing research (2003)
Usher, Kim J., Holmes, Colin A., Lindsay, David, Luck, Lauretta D.
This paper highlights the inadequacy of existing research for the purposes of evidence-based PRN (Latin, pro re nata or 'as needed') medication practice in psychiatric settings and notes the absence...
PRN psychotropic medications: The need for nursing research (2003)
Usher, Kim J., Holmes, Colin A., Lindsay, David, Luck, Lauretta D.
This paper highlights the inadequacy of existing research for the purposes of evidence-based PRN (Latin, pro re nata or 'as needed') medication practice in psychiatric settings and notes the absence...