The relationship between the work environment and therapeutic commitment of nurses working in mental health
Year: 2009
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Nurses in Mental HealthAnother consistent theme in reviews of mental health care is that services cannot recruit and retain the necessary workforce in most mental health disciplines, thereby limiting the ability of services to use any additional resources to expand and improve provision of treatment (Australian Mental Health Workforce Advisory Committee, 2008a, 2008b, 2008c; Mental Health Nurse Education Taskforce, 2008).In economic terms, the increase in demand for mental health professionals has not been matched by supply.In particular, it has been suggested that mental health services have been placed under considerable strain by Preparation for PracticeConcurrent with the reform of mental health services during the 1980s and 1990s, there were changes to the education and registration of nurses in mental health.The NSW Nurses Registration (Amendment) Act 1985, and subsequently the NSW Nurses and Midwives Act possible to examine a necessary aspect of effective therapeutic relationships as described by Carl Rogers (Rogers, 1957): the health professional's willingness and ability to engage and maintain the relationship.The concept of therapeutic commitment embodies this willingness and ability in the context of trust, empathy and positive regard of the health professional towards the patient.This concept has been linked to aspects of the work environment together with aspects of the individual health professional, and has been measured in a number of studies in clinical areas such as alcohol and other drug counselling (Cartwright,
Author: Michael Roche
Language: English
Subfield: Research and Theory
Field: Nursing
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1584633309