Well balanced: 8 steps to wellness for adults with mental illness and diabetes.

Serious mental illness places a tremendous burden on clients, their families, and behavioral and medical health care providers. The co-occurrence of diabetes with mental illness may further compromise daily functioning. Psychiatric nurses can make a significant difference in improving the health and medical outcomes of this client population.

Moving forward with deinstitutionalization: lessons of an ethical policy analysis.

The formulation, implementation, and evaluation of public policies do not typically include formal ethical analysis. Reconceptualizing from an ethical standpoint the historical and contemporary dilemmas created by the deinstitutionalization policy underscores the need for attention to distributive justice and respect for individuals in developing programs for the chronically mentally ill and in selecting and measuring successful outcomes.