@Te Pou
@Te Pou is a blog with news and opinion pieces from Te Pou staff. You can click on an author's name in the right hand column to read all posts by that person, or use the archive and tags to find news by date or topic. Why not join the conversation and let us know what you think? Your comments are welcome on all @Te Pou posts.
Professional supervision forum
Published: 29 March 2012 by Suzette Poole
Thirty-three professional supervision champions recently attended a national forum run by Te Pou in Wellington.
Professional supervision
Published: 29 March 2012 by Robyn Shearer
Supervision remains an important aspect of safe practice in mental health and addictions services.
How to make information more alive for nurses working in mental health
Published: 26 January 2012 by Mark Smith
In this column I want to return to a theme I have touched on before. Namely, how to make information more alive for nurses.
Service user perspective - A sensory world
Published: 26 January 2012 by Carolyn Swanson
When you first look at sensory modulation approaches, you see a pile of tools usually in attractive spaces and it looks like a ‘nice to have’ sort of thing. Don’t be fooled, it can be so much more than that.
Service user perspective - Mental myths and mighty musings
Published: 01 November 2011 by Carolyn Swanson
The role of mental health nursing is such an important one for people in pain, the difference between life and death at times and almost always between living and existing.
Let's get real... about ourselves?
Imagine being surrounded by people trying to help you who never ask how you feel about your situation or what help you would like to receive? This is exactly what Helen Warren uncovered during her PhD research on how people with mental health and addictions are supported in the community.
Let's get real contributes to nursing knowledge and skills
Always on the lookout for good resources Carole Schneebeli, mental health nurse educator for Waitemata District Health Board (DHB), was delighted when the Let’s get real framework and enablers (tools and learning modules) became available in 2009.
