Nursing research snapshot
Assoc Prof Brian McKenna - Nursing - The University of Auckland
b.mckenna@auckland.ac.nz
My areas of research expertise
- Mental health nursing
- Forensic mental health nursing
- Forensic psychiatry
- Mental health legislation
- Mental health and violence
My favoured methodology / methodologies
- Quantitative
- Mixed methods
Areas that I am currently researching
- Statutory roles for nurses under mental health legislation
- The use of Tasers on mental health service users in crisis
- Problem gambling and crime
- Best practice supervision models for the NZ context
- Interventions to increase the numbers of nurses recruited to mental health services
Areas of research that are of emerging interest to me
- Primary mental health care initiatives
- The link between mental and physical health - primarily the physical health needs of mental health service users
- The experience of service users in crisis during implementation of mental health legislation
I am interested in collaborating with U21 colleagues in the following areas of research
- Any of the above
The area in which I wish to undertake a visiting scholarship
- Any of the above
Additional comment
- It is really important that the issue of creating a database is taken forward and results in viable attempts to establish working relationships with mental health nursing academics internationally.
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