The mental health care system in NWP is nurse-based because the geospatial characteristics are largely rural. The current child psychiatric service in this province is scanty and not well defined. There are currently no psychiatric specialists in the rural communities, except in the specialized psychi...
Nina, the first author of this chapter, the occupational and professional life has been a journey of transformation from a nurse educated in psychiatric nursing, mental disorders, symptoms, and risk factors to find my identity as amental health nurse. Today I am intrigued by the constitutional...
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The list of professionals included was as follows: a psychiatrist, a general practitioner or family physician, any other physician (eg, cardiologist, gynecologist, or urologist), a social worker, a counselor, any other mental health professional (eg, a psychotherapist or a mental health nurse),...
nurse-led mental health promotion intervention, delivered to older home care clients with depressive symptoms, would result in a reduction in the severity of these symptoms. Further, we hypothesized that the intervention would reduce anxiety, improve HRQoL, and pay for itself by reducing the use ...
I called my Community Health Centre (CHC). They had already received the results. Friday: I was at the CHC when they opened to get the news in person: I needed a biopsy. I saw Nghi, the same nurse practitioner I’d seen earlier in the week, and another nurse practitioner, Rosie, wh...
Patient-reported experiences are a key source of information on quality in mental health care. Most patient experience surveys are limited to assessments f
The journal asks for key practitioner messages, and these I’ve reproduced here: Due to rising demand and increasing healthcare waiting times, more CYP present at mental health services at crisis point. To improve care, it is important to understand the types of mental health crisis services an...
Finding adequate mental health care amid a nationwide shortage of mental health professionals is tricky, but not impossible. Getting a diagnosis Mental health practitioners include, but are not limited to, psychologists, social workers, counselors, psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrists. Many pe...
In Norway, adolescents have easy access to the primary health care system through the school nurse, and all have a designated general practitioner (GP). All schools have school counsellors. The educational psychological services are only available through referral, and deal mainly with educational pr...