Direct care activities for assistants in nursing in inpatient mental health settings in Australia: A modified Delphi study.
This paper describes a modified Delphi approach to developing a set of direct care activities for assistants in nursing (AIN) working in mental health settings within a metropolitan local health district (LHD). Although AIN have been employed in a range of health care settings in recent years, they have not routinely been placed in the mental health context. A modified Delphi method was utilised as it has a proven history of application in the health sector, particularly in circumstances where new guidelines, policies or practice frameworks were required. A set of direct care activities for working in mental health settings was developed from an initial set of baseline descriptors and then two rounds of consensus conferencing with a panel of experts. This paper will detail that process and discuss the resulting implications for the consensus reached on the set of direct care activities.
Darrin
D
Cowan
Scott
S
Brunero
Scott
S
Lamont
Mark
M
Joyce
D001315:Australia; D002983:Clinical Competence; D032921:Consensus; D003697:Delphi Technique; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009728:Nursing Assistants / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires