Abstract
D.Cur.
There is currently lack of mobilization of the advanced psychiatric nurse as a resource
person in the mental health services of the Gauteng Province. This lack of mobilization
of the advanced psychiatric nurse as a resource person in the mental health services,
is associated with her supervisors who are the psychiatric nurse managers.
The purpose of this research was to develop and describe a model that could be
implemented to guide the mobilization of the advanced psychiatric nurse as a resource
person in the mental health services in order to facilitate her mental health. The
research also focused on developing guidelines for the implementation of the model for
the mobilization of the advanced psychiatric nurse as a resource person.
The model: "Mobilization of the advanced psychiatric nurse as a resource person: an
interactive process", together with its operational guidelines was developed by using a
theory generative design, that is, qualitative, explorative, descriptive and contextual in
nature. This model was developed according to Chinn and Kramer's (1995) approach
to theory generation, namely:
identification of the central concepts for the model by conducting a field study to
explore and describe the views of the advanced psychiatric nurse and those of
the psychiatric nurse managers with regard to the mobilization of the advanced
psychiatric nurse as a resource person in the mental health services of Gauteng;
analysing the data gathered through focus groups interviews from the sample of
the advanced psychiatric nurses and form the sample of psychiatric nurse
managers using Strauss and Corbin's (1990) open, axial, and selective coding
approach to guide data analysis;
analysing the data by identifying, defining, classifying the concepts and placing
them into relationship with each other to form relationship statements as the
conceptual framework for the model;
describing the model using strategies proposed by Chinn and Kramer (1995) and
then subjecting the model to evaluation by experts in theory generation;
describing the guidelines for the implementation of the model in the clinical
setting.