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Journal article
Healthcare Professional Perspectives on the Impact of the Physical Health Nurse Consultant
International journal of mental health nursing
01/08/2024
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Abstract
Early mortality experienced by people living with mental health issues (hereon termed consumers) is largely preventable. Healthcare professionals perceive healthcare system inadequacies such as diagnostic overshadowing, stigma and fragmentation of physical and mental healthcare services can be resolved through effective integration approaches. Service- and individual-level integration approaches involve multidisciplinary teams collaborating and coordinating care to holistically meet consumers' physical and mental health needs. Evidence suggests appropriately trained healthcare professionals can deliver effective integrated treatment without financial or organisational restructuring. Specialist nursing positions such as Physical Health Nurse Consultants can support and integrate physical and mental health care. Consumers report the Physical Health Nurse Consultant as providing dedicated, integrated, coordinated and holistic mental and physical health care. This study aimed to explore the Physical Health Nurse Consultant role from the perspectives of healthcare professionals. A qualitative exploratory study design was used. Fourteen healthcare professionals participated in individual interviews or focus groups. Interview recordings were transcribed, and thematically analysed. Three themes were identified: (i) role functions, including integration of physical and mental health care, (ii) impact on consumer physical health outcomes and (iii) impact on service delivery. Healthcare professionals perceive the Physical Health Nurse Consultant effectively integrates physical and mental health care and subsequently support the continuation and embedding of the role in routine practice. Future research is required to explore healthcare professionals' experiences and perceptions of how these roles be translated to routine clinical practice. Examining the professional development requirements, service provider constraints and economic implication to achieve these outcomes also warrants attention.
Details
- Title
- Healthcare Professional Perspectives on the Impact of the Physical Health Nurse Consultant
- Creators
- Tracy Tabvuma - Southern Cross UniversityRobert Stanton - Central Queensland UniversityYa‐Ling Huang - Southern Cross UniversityBrenda Happell - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- International journal of mental health nursing
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Grant note
Thank you to the Southern Cross University for supporting TT's Doctoral Thesis. Thank you to all the participants who took part in this study.
- Identifiers
- 991013211698602368
- Copyright
- © 2024 The Author(s). International Journal of Mental Health Nursing published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
- Academic Unit
- Nursing; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article