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Nursing Care of the Patient Requiring Mechanical Circulatory Support
Published in Wayne E. Richenbacher, Mechanical Circulatory Support, 2020
Kelly L. Jones, Carolyn J. Laxson, Sarah C. Seemuth, Sara J. Vance
To assist with coping, patients and families may benefit from ongoing or periodic mental health services. These services are provided at the implant center or through community providers. If the patient lives a significant distance from the hospital utilizing community providers is more cost effective and efficient for the patient. In this instance the implant center should educate the provider about mechanical ventricular assistance and its impact on the patient and family. Mental health services are provided by a psychiatric nurse, psychiatrist, social work or other qualified mental heath professional.
Correctional Health Care and Civil Rights
Published in Julie Dickinson, Anne Meyer, Karen J. Huff, Deborah A. Wipf, Elizabeth K. Zorn, Kathy G. Ferrell, Lisa Mancuso, Marjorie Berg Pugatch, Joanne Walker, Karen Wilkinson, Legal Nurse Consulting Principles and Practices, 2019
J. Thaddeus Eckenrode, Cynthia A. Maag, Mariann F. Cosby
Mental health services may also be available in the institution, directly or through referral. Facilities may have someone available certain days of the week. Qualified mental health professionals includes psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric social workers, licensed professional counselors, psychiatric nurses or others who are permitted by law to evaluate and care for the mental health needs of patients. As a standard of care, inmates are expected to receive mental health access to meet their serious mental health needs. The facility should have a designated mental health authority responsible for mental healthcare services (NCCHC, 2015b).
Symptom Management Framework
Published in David B. Cooper, Jo Cooper, Palliative Care Within Mental Health, 2018
John Richard Ashcroft, Laura Henry
Having compiled a list of potential causes of any individual symptom, it is imperative to gather as much information as possible to determine the likelihood of any suggested theories. It is likely that any individual entering mental health services for the first time would undergo a full history and examination and although such documentation is often detailed and accurate at the time of the assessment, it is most certainly in the best interests of all for the history to be revisited to ensure that the information is correct; a diagnosis in mental health made upon admission to hospital or secondary services should by no means go unchallenged. As stated above, given the significant comorbidity in mental health settings, we should remain mindful of the possibility of other causes for symptoms. Mental ill-health diagnoses are diagnoses of exclusion, and where possible all non-psychiatric causes should be excluded before a mental health problem is diagnosed.
Artificially intelligent chatbots in digital mental health interventions: a review
Published in Expert Review of Medical Devices, 2021
Eliane M. Boucher, Nicole R. Harake, Haley E. Ward, Sarah Elizabeth Stoeckl, Junielly Vargas, Jared Minkel, Acacia C. Parks, Ran Zilca
Approximately one in five adults in the United States (U.S.) struggle with mental illness [1–3]; however, many of these individuals are not receiving treatment. For example, in one nationally representative sample, only 41.1% of U.S. adults with a diagnosis of anxiety, mood, impulse control, and/or substance disorders received treatment in the previous 12 months [4]. Worldwide, it is estimated that 70% of people with mental illness receive no formal treatment [5]. While some individuals do not seek treatment because of low perceived need [6] or attitudinal barriers like perceived stigma [7], those who desire treatment may not be able to receive it quickly due to a shortage of mental health professionals, particularly in rural and low income areas [8]. Indeed, primary care physicians report that obtaining outpatient mental health services for patients is more difficult than other common referrals [9].
Art Therapy and Disability Studies
Published in Art Therapy, 2020
Chun-shan (Sandie) Yi, Catherine Hyland Moon
During my professional life, I have been troubled by the false separation between mental health services users and providers. The unspoken hierarchy of professional self-disclosure makes it permissible to reveal some mental health challenges (e.g., depression), but not others (e.g., recent psychiatric hospitalizations). As a co-facilitator of conference workshops and open forums on the stigma and discrimination faced by user-providers, I am acutely aware of the potential harmful impacts on professional reputation, status, and wellbeing resulting from disclosure of psychiatric disabilities. Colleagues who have dedicated their professional lives to serving people with disabilities are sometimes threatened or offended when their work is critiqued from a disability culture or politics perspective. Such critique is what I find so valuable about disability studies, as it demands that I set aside my expert role and listen intently to the lived experiences of people with disabilities.
Improving collaboration between primary care and mental health services
Published in The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 2019
Nick Kates, Bruce Arroll, Elizabeth Currie, Charlotte Hanlon, Linda Gask, Henrikje Klasen, Graham Meadows, Godfrey Rukundo, Nadiya Sunderji, Torleif Ruud, Mark Williams
Although the focus of this paper is on the integration of mental health services within primary care settings, there are many things that any mental health service can do to support primary care, although the range of options increases when there is greater proximity or personal contact. These include:Steps that any mental health service provider(s) can take to improve communication and better co-ordinate care.Initiatives aimed at increasing the skills and comfort of PCPs in managing mental health problems in their practice (building capacity).The integration of PCPs within mental health programmes to address the many unmet physical health needs of psychiatric patients.Using web-based and other innovative communication technologies to improve access to information and care for individuals living in more remote communities (Telehealth).