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Why Is Better Mental Health Care So Elusive?
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-18, 18:46 authored by Horsfall, J, Cleary, M, Hunt, GEPURPOSE:There are numerous barriers to improving healthcare delivery. This article summarizes contemporary theories and research evidence to focus on ways to motivate change within the hospital system to provide better health care.
CONCLUSIONS: Understanding multidisciplinary team processes, recognizing hospitals as systems, and ascertaining the unit culture is a prerequisite for leaders and policy makers to improve mental health practices.
PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Finding ways to deliver better health care to people with a mental illness is a high priority, and nurses have a central role to play in this pursuit of excellence.
History
Publication title
Perspectives in Psychiatric Care: journal for advanced practice psychiatric nursesVolume
46Issue
4Pagination
279-285ISSN
0031-5990Department/School
School of Health SciencesPublisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.Place of publication
United StatesRights statement
Copyright 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Repository Status
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