Practice Development In Nursing Practice

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This article reports on a project intended to change the culture and practice of one acute mental health inpatient setting housed in a tired, 1960s building which, judged by modern standards, was poorly designed for the purpose even then. Changes in the management team and the recruitment of a clinical nurse educator had resulted in some significant developments in nursing practice and in the culture of the ward in the period leading up to the implementation of this project. This article describes the first 12 months of a practice development project carried out with the nursing staff from a metropolitan inpatient mental health unit in Sydney. Specific project teams were formed to work on known practice improvement issues between Away Days,