The physical health nurse consultant and mental health consumer: An important therapeutic partnership

Tracy Tabvuma; Robert Stanton; Brenda Happell

doi:10.1111/inm.13104

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The physical health nurse consultant and mental health consumer: An important therapeutic partnership

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The physical health nurse consultant and mental health consumer: An important therapeutic partnership

Tracy Tabvuma, Robert Stanton and Brenda Happell

International journal of mental health nursing, Vol.32(2), pp.579-589

04/2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.13104

PMID: 36567487

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consumer evaluation

therapeutic partnership

qualitative research

physical health

mental health nurse

People diagnosed with mental illness (hereon referred to as consumers) experience a disproportionately lower life expectancy of up 30 years compared to the general population. Systemic issues such as diagnostic overshadowing and stigma from healthcare professionals have inhibited the development of positive therapeutic partnerships that enable consumers to seek and engage support for their physical health concerns. Consumers have called for healthcare professionals to skillfully develop and prioritize therapeutic partnerships whilst coordinating and providing physical healthcare. The aim of this qualitative descriptive research was to explore consumer views and experiences of their interactions with a specialist mental health nursing role, the Physical Health Nurse Consultant. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 consumers from a large public Community Mental Health Service in the Australian Capital Territory. Interviews were transcribed and thematically analysed. Therapeutic partnerships were an overarching theme identified from the data and included three sub-themes: personal attributes of the Physical Health Nurse Consultant; behaviour change engagement strategies; and impact of the therapeutic partnership. Consumers described the personal and professional attributes of the Physical Health Nurse Consultant that enabled the establishment and maintenance of their highly valued therapeutic partnership. This therapeutic partnership was perceived to positively impact their personal and clinical outcomes. With increasing support from consumers, clinical practice settings should move towards embedding a Physical Health Nurse Consultant role in routine practice. Further research exploring the co-development of health behaviour change goals and, barriers and facilitators experienced by the consumers regarding the Physical Health Nurse Consultant is required to further role development.

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Title: The physical health nurse consultant and mental health consumer: An important therapeutic partnership
Creators: Tracy Tabvuma - Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University, Lismore, New South Wales, Australia
Robert Stanton - Central Queensland University
Brenda Happell - School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Publication Details: International journal of mental health nursing, Vol.32(2), pp.579-589
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Identifiers: 991013076011402368
Copyright: © 2022 The Authors. 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, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Academic Unit: Faculty of Health
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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