Atlas Nurses In Mental Health 2007 by World Health Organization

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Although psychological healthiness nursing is a severe factor for many nations, there was little or no released information regarding psychological wellbeing and fitness nursing. This new booklet from the realm overall healthiness association (WHO) and the foreign Council of Nurses (ICN) summarizes info on nurses and psychological future health accrued from 172 nations around the globe. The psychological overall healthiness nursing survey requested chosen respondents inside nations to file on nurses operating in a number of psychological healthiness settings. The survey additionally accrued details at the content material and quantity of either undergraduate and graduate point psychological wellbeing and fitness education for nurses in nations. The document contains information summarizing details from international locations grouped by way of geographic zone and through state source of revenue degrees.

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Recognize nurses as essential human resources for mental health care Nurses play a key role in the care of people with mental disorders; this role needs to be recognized and incorporated into the overall plans for mental health in all countries. Nurses, with appropriate training, can perform a much wider variety of functions within mental health services than they are currently allotted. Nurses have to be able to provide mental health care in the community, as community services should be the most easily accessible form of care.

Incorporate a mental health component into basic and post-basic nursing training • Mental health must be an essential ingredient of training for all nurses. Mental health training is a necessary prerequisite for the provision of mental health care, but is also important for a holistic approach to general nursing care. Because there are no standards for the content of mental health training in basic nursing programmes, countries’ curricula vary considerably on what is included. Surprisingly, there are some basic nurse training programmes that do not include any training for mental health.

With respect to improving the quality of nursing education, respondents suggested varying the curriculum, devoting more hours to mental health, training more nurse educators and establishing psychiatry as a priority in nursing education. In addition, several respondents expressed an interest in developing exchange programmes with other countries by increasing the availability of fellowships and scholarships. 3 Availability of clinical experience in community mental health in undergraduate nursing courses Atlas: Nurses in Mental Health 2007 - World Health Organization • 31 8 M E N TA L H E A LT H E D U C AT I O N ( P O ST- B AS I C L E V E L ) T here is a positive relationship between country income level and the availability of both specialist post-basic education and continuing education programmes for mental health nurses.

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