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An Expansive View of Mental Health Nursing

Minority Nurse

In a 2021 editorial on the website of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) titled “ Integrating Behavioral Health Into Primary Care ,” author Sarina Schrager, MD, MS opines that “ fully integrating behavioral health in primary care is the gold standard for care.”

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Meet Betsy Peyton: The Hero Behind Keeping Vulnerable Patients Safe and Out of the ER

Daily Nurse

After becoming a nurse, Peyton worked in group homes with dementia patients in a locked psychiatry unit and found a passion for being with people when they’re “not at their best.” “I love going on visits and reminding myself of how great and rewarding it is to sit with someone.

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Integrative Medicine Relies on Trust, Collaboration to Succeed

Nurse.com

Integrative medicine’s use in psychiatry The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that more than one in five adults in the U.S. million in 2021) are living with a mental illness.

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What is Neurodiversity? Understanding Neurodiversity

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Elizabeth Pellicano and Jacquiline den Houting, Annual Research Review: Shifting from normal science to neurodiversity in autism science, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, November 3, 2021: 63(4), 381396, [link]. Caroline Miller, What Is Neurodiversity? Child Mind Institute, November 4, 2024, [link]. Kathy Leadbitter, et al.

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Peer support and nurse well-being

American Nurse

We make this distinction in recognition of the stigma associated with therapy and psychiatry that still exists among many of our colleagues. Peer support defined Understanding what peer support is (and isn’t) will help organizations develop an effective program and reassure nurses seeking help. September 22, 2020. 20.0240 Villanueva E.

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Health Policy

American Nurse

2021) found that childhood trauma was positively correlated with fibromyalgia symptoms. Molecular Psychiatry, 26(9), 5079–5086. BMC Psychiatry, 22(1). They found that those with increased childhood trauma were two to four times more likely to develop chronic health conditions and poor health status than those with no trauma.

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Nursing ethics and shared governance model

American Nurse

For example, to encourage discussion about mental health, NECC partnered with the psychiatry department to host a hospital-wide book discussion of Sandy Allen’s book A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story about Schizophrenia. Provision 6 describes the nurse’s duty to act as a moral agent for creating ethical environments.