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Approximately 40% of hospitalized patients are age 65 or older (McDermott et al., 2017).As many as 70% of these hospitalized older adults are considered frail, further increasing their risks for worsening morbidity, greater dependence, and increased disability contributing to multiple early rehospitalizations, institutionalization, and excess mortality (Lekan et al., 2017).
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- Effective nurse–patient relationships in mental health care ...
Therapeutic alliance is a core part of the nursing role and...
- Strategies to strengthen the provision of mental health care ...
The poor resourcing of mental health care, inequity between...
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Oct 26, 2023 · Keep your tone and body language neutral. Avoid overreacting. Remain calm, rational, and professional. This person’s behavior is often communicating their anxiety, fear and/or an unmet need. How you respond can have a direct effect on whether the situation — and the individual’s emotional state — escalates or defuses.
Therapeutic alliance is a core part of the nursing role and key to the attainment of positive outcomes for people utilising mental health care services. However, these relationships are sometimes difficult to develop and sustain, and nursing staff would ...
- Samantha Hartley, Jessica Raphael, Karina Lovell, Katherine Berry
- 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2019.103490
- 2020
- Int J Nurs Stud. 2020 Feb; 102: 103490.
Sep 6, 2019 · The poor resourcing of mental health care, inequity between provinces, lack of routinely collected data, and ongoing reliance on stand-alone mental hospitals, led to the publication of the National Mental Health Policy Framework and Strategic Plan 2013–2020 . This plan aims to ensure that quality mental healthcare services are accessible, equitable, comprehensive and integrated at all levels ...
- Witness Mapanga, Daleen Casteleijn, Carmel Ramiah, Willem Odendaal, Willem Odendaal, Zolani Metu, Le...
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0222162
- 2019
- PLoS One. 2019; 14(9): e0222162.
Sep 1, 2020 · It is time for policy makers and payers overseeing mental health care systems to refocus their priorities away from efforts to continue restricting hospital care. Examples exist (6, 7); if transformation is done well and appropriately, hospital mental health care can benefit all, including patients and their families. And the evolution of ...
Feb 11, 2022 · 1. Care typically starts in the emergency room. When someone is having a mental health crisis, often a family member or law enforcement officer will take the person to an emergency department. UNC Health emergency departments have trained psychiatric teams to evaluate patients with mental and behavioral problems.
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If you are an adult 19 or older you will be admitted to an adult (psychiatric) inpatient unit. If you are a youth you will be admitted to a youth psychiatric unit. Once a decision is made to admit you to the psychiatric care area, you will be given the first bed available. If there is no bed available at your community hospital, you may be ...
