Clinical Development Units (Nursing): the western Sydney approach

Greenwood, Jennifer

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2648.1999.00936.x

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“…However, on completion of the training program, the participants' understanding of what an NCDU was and how it might apply to their clinical area was strengthened. This suggests the importance of providing training for leaders of the NCDU program as introduced by Greenwood (1999) at the University of Western Sydney.…”

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“…Literature exploring the implementation of the NCDUs' philosophy has identified a number of barriers, including lack of support from management leading to the disempowerment of nurses, lack of adequate resources to support implementation (i.e., low staffing, high turnover of NCDU leaders), and lack of motivation of staff who are resistive to change (Atsalos & Greenwood, 2001;Gerrish & Ferguson, 2000;Greenwood, 1999;Greenwood & Parsons, 2002b;Pearson, 1997). The aim of the current study is to evaluate the implementation of a number of NCDUs within the mental health setting in Victoria, Australia.…”

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“…The implementation of the NCDU program was based on the implementation strategy adopted by the University of Western Sydney (Greenwood, 1999). A formal program was institued to facilitate the preparation of NCDU leaders.…”

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Changing the Culture of Mental Health Nursing: The Contribution of Nursing Clinical Development Units

Happell

Martin

2005

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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The reluctance of nurses to utilise research findings in their practice has been extensively discussed in the literature. Nursing Clinical Development Units (NCDU) represent one approach to facilitating a greater interaction between research and nursing practice. This paper presents the results of an impact evaluation of an NCDU program operating in Victoria, Australia. In-depth interviews were conducted with participants in the NCDU program (n = 14). The findings suggest an increase in accessing and ultilising research by nurses since the introduction of the program, with an increased focus on evidence-based practice.

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Changing the Culture of Mental Health Nursing: The Contribution of Nursing Clinical Development Units

Happell

Martin

2005

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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“…National Clinical Development Units have been introduced in the mental health area (Greenwood 1999; Wynaden & Rose 1998) but this has tended to be either the development of a single unit or the development of a number of units within a larger program of which the mental health area constitutes the minority. In submitting a tender to operate the Centre for Psychiatric Nursing Research and Practice (CPNRP), the School of Postgraduate Nursing, at the University of Melbourne, in partnership with the Mental Health Program of Melbourne Health indicated an intention to establish NCDU in collaboration with the clinical field.…”

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Changing the mental health nursing culture: The nursing clinical development unit approach

Happell

Martin

2002

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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Developments in nursing as a profession have been accompanied by a perceived need to increase the relevance of research to nursing practice. The increased exposure to research in nursing curricula and the development of nursing academia has had little impact on either the conduct of clinical research or its utilization within the work place culture. Nursing Clinical Development Units (NCDU) were established with the view to overcoming some of these barriers through partnerships between academia and the clinical field. The aim of NCDU is to strive for improved patient outcomes. Education and research activities should be directed to achieve this patient-orientated outcome. The aim of this paper is to describe the NCDU program introduced by the Centre for Psychiatric Nursing Research and Practice (CPNRP) in Melbourne, Victoria. The way in which the program is designed to facilitate the relationship between CPNRP and the clinical field with the aim of contributing to improved patient outcomes will be emphasized. An evaluation of the program to date suggests that such links will be strengthened, and that this partnership will contribute to a greater involvement in clinically based research.

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“…In addition, and in light of this, in Western Sydney, aspirant CDU leaders are provided a 12-day CDU leadership preparation course to assist them in acquiring the skills required to plan and strategically develop their units (Greenwood, 1999). This is followed by (indefinitely) continuing monthly (½ day) workshops to fulfill leaders' continuing education needs and to provide a forum for peer support and review.…”

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Editorial: Clinical Development Units

Greenwood¹

2000

Clin Nurs Res

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one is given to understand, was inspired by one of the master's lovers; it is a marble representation of someone Michelangelo loved.The creation of David is instructive in many respects. First, and rather obviously, it represents something the master held dear, dear enough to expend much time and energy to complete for it took many years to sculpt. Second, Michelangelo did not sculpt it alone; he was assisted by a series of other master sculptors and a number of apprentices. David, therefore, is the result of concerted effort over a protracted period. Third, David is not as large as one would imagine, nor is it perfect; David's hands are extremely large in proportion to the torso. It does not quite meet the expectations of all the tourists who flock to Florence to see it; indeed, some (heretics!) wonder what all the fuss is about. It would be a mistake, however, to expect that David could ever be perfect. It was sculpted by differentially skilled masters and apprentices; mistakes would inevitably have been made by some apprentices, even some masters, but then rectified under the careful eye of a master or senior master. Sculptors learned their art while they were creating David, sometimes with dogged tenacity. Fourth, its minor "imperfections" are what make David unique or, at the very least, contribute to its idiosyncrasy.Clinical development units (CDUs) are, or could be, nursing's David: nursing's masterpiece. They provide a framework

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Clinical Development Units (Nursing): the western Sydney approach

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Changing the Culture of Mental Health Nursing: The Contribution of Nursing Clinical Development Units

Changing the Culture of Mental Health Nursing: The Contribution of Nursing Clinical Development Units

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