Journal article
Being Accountable or Filling in Forms: Managers and Clinicians' Views About Communicating Risk
Perspectives in psychiatric care, Vol.53(1), pp.38-46
01/01/2017
PMID: 26269246
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Abstract
Assessment, documentation, and prevention of risk are central to mental health services. However, there is a paucity of research examining how risk is perceived by key stakeholders including managers and clinicians.
In-depth interviews were held with 22 senior managers and 21 clinicians.
Communicating risk was a major theme to emerge. For managers, accountability was a primary consideration in communicating risk and therefore influential over nursing practice. Clinicians were more likely to view the organizational processes of communicating risk as a bureaucratic exercise.
The significant difference between managers and clinicians is problematic for achieving consumer-focused mental health service delivery, a more critical approach to risk is essential in preserving the therapeutic relationship.
Details
- Title
- Being Accountable or Filling in Forms: Managers and Clinicians' Views About Communicating Risk
- Creators
- Leonie Clancy - Gold Coast HealthBrenda Happell - University of Canberra
- Publication Details
- Perspectives in psychiatric care, Vol.53(1), pp.38-46
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 9
- Grant note
- North Western Mental Health Aged Persons' Mental Health Nursing Australian Research Council
- Identifiers
- 991013036378302368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article