TY - JOUR
T1 - Nurse views on the cardiometabolic health nurse as an approach to improving the physical health of people with serious mental illness in Australia
AU - Happell, Brenda
AU - Scott, David
AU - Platania-Phung, Chris
PY - 2013/10
Y1 - 2013/10
N2 - People with serious mental illness (SMI) die prematurely from common physical illnesses such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. These cardiometabolic risks are preventable and manageable yet these aspects of health care have been neglected in mental health services. A potential nurse-based strategy to decisively improve cardiometabolic health of people with SMI is to introduce a cardiometabolic health nurse (CHN) into mental health services. The current study aimed to establish the views of nurses working in mental health care on the potential benefits and limits of CHN to improve physical health-care standards in Australia. All members of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses were invited to participate in an online survey and 643 participated. Nurses generally agreed that a CHN role would provide a range of improvements to physical health care, such as increased detection, assessment on, and follow up of cardiometabolic risks, and decreased workload for other nurses. While participants were generally supportive of such a role, they felt it would not be suitable in all health-care settings in Australia.
AB - People with serious mental illness (SMI) die prematurely from common physical illnesses such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. These cardiometabolic risks are preventable and manageable yet these aspects of health care have been neglected in mental health services. A potential nurse-based strategy to decisively improve cardiometabolic health of people with SMI is to introduce a cardiometabolic health nurse (CHN) into mental health services. The current study aimed to establish the views of nurses working in mental health care on the potential benefits and limits of CHN to improve physical health-care standards in Australia. All members of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses were invited to participate in an online survey and 643 participated. Nurses generally agreed that a CHN role would provide a range of improvements to physical health care, such as increased detection, assessment on, and follow up of cardiometabolic risks, and decreased workload for other nurses. While participants were generally supportive of such a role, they felt it would not be suitable in all health-care settings in Australia.
KW - Cardiometabolic health nurse
KW - Cardiovascular disease
KW - Diabetes
KW - Physical health
KW - Serious mental illness
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84882670111&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1447-0349.2012.00892.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1447-0349.2012.00892.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 23211091
AN - SCOPUS:84882670111
VL - 22
SP - 418
EP - 429
JO - International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
JF - International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
SN - 1445-8330
IS - 5
ER -