Tips for nurses on monitoring the physical risk factors for people with mental illness who are being teated with antipsychotic medications
People with mental illness, especially those with severe mental illness (SMI) such as psychosis, have a life expectancy shortened by 20 years compared with the general population (Pradhan and Joshi 2018). To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Holistic care helps nurses identify key risk factors, such as unhealthy diet and smoking, in people with severe mental illness. There are several reasons why physical health monitoring is important in people with severe mental illness (SMI). This article focuses on two: improving physical health outcomes and extending the scope of mental health nursing practice. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
People with a mental illness are more susceptible to physical ill health than the general population, which leads to significantly higher mortality rates among this group. Reasons for this include lifestyle factors such as smoking, lack of exercise and poor diet. Inadequate knowledge and skills about physical health among mental health nurses can lead to uncoordinated care and inadequate access to physical health services for people with mental ill health. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
A new RCN report says nurses are best placed to help close the huge gap in life expectancy between people with serious mental illness and the rest of the population.
This publication gives an overview of the work the RCN is doing to address the mortality gap between people with serious mental illness and the rest of the population as well as our work towards establishing parity of esteem between mental and physical health.
Led by the University of York’s Mental Health and Addiction Research Group, SCIMITAR+ is the largest ever trial to support smoking cessation among people who use mental health services.
Smoking rates among people with mental health conditions are among the highest of any group having changed little over the last 20 years, while other smokers have quit. This new study demonstrates that with the right support this inequality could be a thing of the past.
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Technological innovation offers opportunities to improve mental health care, however, little evidence exists regarding attitudes of inpatient staff and patients to such changes. We present a survey of staff and patients prior to introduction of a digital version of the National Early Warning Score (eNEWS) system for identifying physical deterioration.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
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The Moving Medicine tool will support health care professionals to advise patients on how physical activity can help manage their conditions, prevent disease and aid recovery.
Equipping nursing staff and other health care professionals with the knowledge and skills to prescribe the right sorts of movement and exercise could have life-long benefits for hundreds of thousands of patients, the RCN has said.
Results from an RCN survey of mental health nursing staff show more than half think mental health equality hasn’t been achieved five years after the Westminster Government pledged to introduce measures to ensure people with serious mental health problems had the same access to treatment as that experienced by people with physical health problems
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Registered nurses working in the area of mental health complete either a psychiatric/mental health or comprehensive/generalist nursing program, and their education preparation influences their physical health care nursing practices. The differences in educational preparation may be a contributory factor to nurses’ delivery of physical health care to young people experiencing first episode psychosis. This paper addresses an identified gap in nursing practices related to physical health care of young mental health service users.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP (legacy account) - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Rob Allison considers a recent review that explores the physical and psychological harm inherent in using restraint in mental health inpatient settings.
This study tested the effectiveness of a nurse-delivered health check
in England using the Health Improvement Profile (HIP), which takes approximately 1.5 hours to complete and code, for persons with severe mental illness.. Login at top right hand side of page using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP- Please contact the library to receive a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Mental health nurses play an important role in improving the physical health of individuals with mental illnesses. However, there are limited studies of their attitudes and practices about physical health. Therefore, there is a need for qualitative studies to clarify the issue.. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
AN incredible 45 per cent of all cigarettes are smoked by people with a mental health condition who are likely to die many years sooner than a non-smoker due to their habit.
This is one of the statistics unearthed by CNWL in its hard-hitting and informative new stop smoking video (available below) produced to help mental health patients understand the harm caused by smoking, the help that is available to patients who are smokers and that all NHS sites are now smoke free.
To analyse the changes in peripheral oxygenation and microvascular flow in tissues subjected to different pressure regimes in healthy subjects and in hospitalised patients. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details.
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But the study only compared two products, and also only looked at one organism, which doesn't cause infection in humans.
Examining the effectiveness of a wider range of products against other types of infectious organisms, such as viruses and fungi, as well as other strains of bacteria, would be required before we can safely say whether cold water is just as effective as hot.
They are undergoing targeted training to enhance their knowledge of physical health issues to help narrow the, on average, 20 year mortality gap between people with serious mental illness (SMI) and the rest of the population.
Innovative “Physical Health Skills Passports” document the specific training the Trust’s nurses now undergo in assessing and treating physical health conditions such as diabetes and lung disease, which are significantly more prevalent in serious mental health conditions.
The Poplars unit is part of South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
We provide services for people with a diagnosis of Dementia, and people experiencing memory problems.
For hydration week we held a garden party for the service users and IT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS!!
From the decorations to the food- all were made by staff and service users.
The Bretton centre is a low secure inpatient service provided by South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS foundation Trust.
We all know that good physical health can be a key part of overall wellbeing, and with this in mind we have developed a great service model which has increased the level of gym facilitation, gym access, fitness and wellbeing for our service users.
This article presents to implementation service evaluation/quality improvement initiative in one NHS trust which involved the implementation of the Modified Early Warning Scoring System (MEWS) that enables staff to assess, recognise and respond to the physical health needs of people with mental health problems or a learning disability in an inpatient setting.
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Innovative “Physical Health Skills Passports” document the specific training the Trust’s nurses now undergo in assessing and treating physical health conditions such as diabetes and lung disease, which are significantly more prevalent in serious mental health conditions.
These registered mental health nurses are working as wellbeing practitioners in teams with social workers, pharmacists, physiotherapists, care support workers, voluntary services and GPs.
Our practitioners will see people in their own homes or residential care homes, to help reduce referrals into secondary care or hospital for people with mental ill health including dementia, delirium and depression.
As well as providing mental health care, they’ll also carry out some standard wound care and physical health care checks, and support people with long term conditions. The practitioners will also help to educate other health staff in the community care teams, such as district nurses and healthcare support workers, about mental health issues.
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This article reports the findings from a stakeholder consultation to explore the future scope and design of nutrition education for mental health practitioners. The project aimed to consult a range of stakeholders about the scope and design of a nutrition education module in mental health.
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In the last of our series of blogs about the Mental Health Implementation Plan launched earlier this week, nurse consultant Kate Chartres discusses how the model of liaison at Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust supports patients through specialist clinics for people with co-morbid physical and mental health conditions
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This evidence-based information will help mental health nurses to improve the physical health and wellbeing of people living with mental health problems.
This document focuses on how to deal with some of the main risk factors for physical health problems, and helps to make sure that people living with mental health problems have the same access to health checks and healthcare as the rest of the population.
In the latest of a series of blogs about #mentalhealth, an NHS England (London) awareness campaign for mental health care across the capital, a Darzi Quality Improvement Fellow from South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust highlights how the effect physical health problems have on mental health and vice versa is one of the biggest challenges the health system and wider community needs to address
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