Mental Health as a Safety Issue in Healthcare Organizations

Mental health

Table of Contents
Table of Contents.......................................................................................................................1
Statement of the issue.................................................................................................................2
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Background of the issue.............................................................................................................2
Importance of the issue..........................................................................................................3
Summary of the problem........................................................................................................3
Critique Literature......................................................................................................................5
Aims and objectives...........................................................................................................5
Data sources: primary and secondary................................................................................6
Data techniques..................................................................................................................6
Sampling............................................................................................................................6
Findings......................................................................................................................................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................8
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Statement of the issue
The critical nursing care issue is one of the major problems that the healthcare organisations
are facing currently. Providing ethical mental healthcare is the main cause of the issues.
Presently, the nurses are working on the interventions of mental healthcare development.
Introduction
The healthcare organisations have always been concerned about the quality and the safety of
the patients. Nurses form the major group of healthcare professionals in various healthcare
areas. When a patient is admitted to the hospital, a nurse is assigned to the patient. Later, the
nurse is in charge of the well-being of the patient. So the patient is in touch with the nurse
most of the time he spends in the hospital. So it can be concluded that a nurse plays a huge
role in the treatment process of the patient. This study focuses on the importance of the
mental health of the nurses as a safety issue. The study also explores the implications of
mental health by the nurses on the patients to improve the quality of service provided to the
patients.
Background of the issue
Mental disease is a common problem among the Australian population as in one in five
Australians faces some kind of mental problems. 45% of the population face lifetime mental
disorders and 55% of the population faces curable mental diseases (Clement et al., 2015). So,
there is a high chance that the nurses who are entrusted with the patient's health care might be
affected by any mental issues. The hospitals are required to arrange for some psychometric
tests for the healthcare professionals to identify and understand their mental health. When it
comes to the quality of the service, the patients who are admitted in the hospitals show signs
of psychological issues (Hunter et al., 2015). In this scenario the nurses have to take care of
the physical health along with the mental well-being of the patient to ensure complete
recovery.
Many of the health professionals are sometimes stigmatised with the issue of mental health.
In this case, they are not comfortable about talking about it to a psychologist or their
colleagues. They are afraid that they might lose their jobs if their mental illness gets exposed.
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