that hospital administrators who work together with their medical staff to reduce the stigma that is often associated with mental health will be much more effective at creating a healthy workplace. This will not only help their staff by keeping them healthy both mentally and physically, it will ...
Participants discussed challenges associated with the mental healthcare system, the need to adapt, and the importance of support and feeling accepted. To improve accessibility and inclusion of mental health nurses, the system requires increased flexibility. This would benefit all nurses and those who ...
Increased risk of errors, turnover, missed shifts, and mental health problems such as depression and anxiety Decreased mood, overall career satisfaction, and physical health For nurses who are experiencing burnout, their patients can experience the following (Kakacek, 2023): Increased risk of complic...
Mental health is a significant factor in providing effective nursing care for patients in hospital and residential settings. Non-mental health nursing staff often lack the confidence, knowledge and skills to effectively meet the mental health needs of patients who are experiencing psychiatric problems an...
Mental Health and PsychiatryBackground While the nursing profession has been associated with mental health problems and the research into the antecedents of mental health has steadily grown, the relationship between abusive supervision and mental health issues of anxiety and depression remains largely ...
"By the time we conducted the third survey round, many of the LTC nurses—likely burnt out by the strain of caring for ill patients—had quit their jobs, reducing the amount of reported mental health problems." Mental health supports Although the research draws on data from a single province...
People who have mental health problems have higher morbidity and mortality rates than the general population in the UK and they are particularly vulnerable to smoking and smoking-related diseases. It is important that nurses working with these service users help them to stop smoking as part of ...
This process has already commenced in Queensland where the focus of care, ICD10 diagnosis, age-appropriate Health of the Nation Outcomes Scale (HoNOS...Coombs, T. & Meehan, T. (2003). Mental health outcomes in Australia: Issues for mental health nurses. International Journal of Mental Health...
Now, new research shows thesemental health problemscould be contributing to decreased quality of patient care. The study, published recently in the journalHealthcare, found that the more severe the mentalhealthsymptoms reported by nurses, the more likely they will rate thequality of carein their ...
We explored how primary health care nurses perceive the aetiology and socio-ecology of mental health problems as presented by their patients. Informants were eight nurses from three PHC facilities in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Area of Johannesburg, South Africa. They responded to a semi-structured...