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COLLABORATIVE MENTAL HEALTH NURSING PRACTICE
Table of Contents
3Collaborative Mental Health Nursing Practice
3Key Components
3Accessibility
4Collaborative Structures
4Richness of Collaboration
4Consumer Centredness
5Purpose of the Assignment
5Nurse-Consumer Relationship
6Development of Own Nursing Practice
7Conclusions
8References
Collaborative Mental Health Nursing Practice
Collaborative mental health practice refers to the initiative taken by the health care organisations to fulfil the demands of patients who are dealing with the problem of any type of mental illness. The purpose of the initiative is to develop strong relationship between patient and the health care professional and to uplift the capacity of health cares. It aims to further alleviate the stress felt by the patients with mental disorder by enhancing and upgrading the health care practices as well services confe
ed on them ultimately encouraging the care and wellness towards patient. Lastly, the practice focus that the services related to mental health could be easily get accessible and also involve the participation of interdisciplinary health care departments (Supper, Catala & Lustman, 2015).
Collaborative health care involves the active participation of patients, their family members and nurse who look after them all the time and health care professional. The participation involves health discussion between them imparting knowledge, training and the experiences being felt while dealing the issue (Bai, Meredith & Burstein, 2018). The overall framework is consumer centred which aims to reduce burden, expand accessibility and care. For this to accomplish the health care try to introduce various key components, examine previous researches and guide for the same as well as guide for future research that should be initiated for removing the ba
iers being experienced and enhance the working abilities of health care.
Key Components
Collaborative mental health care is based on four major key components which are discussed below:
Accessibility
It is the primary goal which needs to be targeted while considering collaborative mental health care practices. In simple terms it means that a patient with mental illness or their family members could reach out to the health professional for the related queries. The focus is to advance the health care practices by identifying the illness, halting/preventing it and suggesting various effective therapies. The practice is being channelized in such a way that a patient can access the services by sitting at homes (Koivunen & Saranto, 2018). It targets to identify the various spots (like community health centres, schools, any home which is offered voluntarily, sheltered places, office of health care provider if located nea
y) so that it could be reachable to all living nea
y. After that, proper discussions, knowledge sharing and trainings take place between the caregivers and patients and his family. If the place is not approachable then the discussions could be ca
ied out telephonically (Kotsiou et al. 2018). The task is fulfilled either by giving health care at defined place directly or by imparting knowledge and training to the person who look after such patients (Cohen et al. 2015).
Collaborative Structures
It refers to the implementation of strategies to further support the patients with mental illness. The first step towards accomplishing it is to impart knowledge, training and services at the defined place of interaction like community centres, offices of health care professionals formally or informally by telephonic conversation. Second strategy is to create a method by health care providers so that they are able to fulfil the key requirements in collaborative health care. This includes filling of forms either manually and keeping the records or maintaining the records manually so that it would become easy to track the history. Care could be provided through electronic means that make the use of information technology like via e-mails, videoconferencing etc. Further judgement is ca
ied out by various electronic instruments based on software programming (Hurlburt et al. 2014).
Richness of Collaboration
It is the foremost step that includes imparting knowledge and skills by providing various booklets, lectures, manuals, clinical studies happened in recent years, organising workshops and conferences which involve bi-directional participation (Kim & Kang 2019). Moreover, it involves knowledge transfer indirectly via non-governmental organisations, participation of various professionals from inter-disciplinary departments like psychologist, pharmacist, dietician physician etc. so that the...