Policy priorities to improve access to advanced practice nursing care for mental health and substance use problems: An American Academy of Nursing manuscript.

Nearly 50% of the U.S. population struggles with a mental health or substance use disorder in their lifetime, yet a substantial number are unable to receive treatment or are undertreated due to significant shortages and disparities in the mental health workforce.

Nursing strategies to mitigate separation between hospitalized acute and critical care patients and families: A scoping review.

Objective: To describe the nursing strategies used to mitigate the impact of forced separation between hospitalized acute and critical care patients and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Research Methodology/design: A scoping review was performed in accordance with JBI methodology.

Settings: Those acute and critical care areas in which sudden, often unexpected, emergent episodes of illness or injury were treated.

Inclusion of Psychiatric-Mental Health Advanced Practice Nurses in Federal Behavioral Workforce Planning.

Psychiatric-mental health (PMH) advanced practice nurses have the education, certification, and licensure to address the need for providers who can deliver the full scope of mental health services and thereby increase access to mental health care. Although the PMH nurse practitioner (PMHNP) segment of this workforce is rapidly growing, it has scant visibility in workforce planning and the evolving national behavioral health workforce database. An understanding of PMHNP characteristics and practice roles seems to be lacking.

The Future of the Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Workforce: Using Our Skill Set to Address Incongruities in Mental Health Care Delivery.

The USA is dealing with well-documented issues around mental health and its treatment. The Psychiatric Mental Health (PMH) workforce is growing and practicing in a variety of roles within the mental health system. How will PMH nurses address instances when the structure of services does not meet the mental health needs of the population? In this piece, I argue that to some degree the future of the PMH workforce will be determined by how well we use our capacity and capabilities to address incongruities in service structure and population needs.

Psychiatric Nursing Workforce Survey: Results and Implications.

Objective: The last national survey of psychiatric-mental health (PMH) nurses was conducted in 2016 and was limited to advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs). Data on the demographic and employment characteristics of the PMH workforce could inform how to optimize the PMH nursing workforce to address increasing demands for mental health services. The objective was to conduct a national survey of PMH registered nurses (RNs) and PMH-APRNs to gather data on their demographic, educational, and practice characteristics.

International consensus on a standard set of outcome measures for child and youth anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

A major barrier to improving care effectiveness for mental health is a lack of consensus on outcomes measurement. The International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) has already developed a consensus-based standard set of outcomes for anxiety and depression in adults (including the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, the Generalised Anxiety Disorder 7-item Scale, and the WHO Disability Schedule). This Position Paper reports on recommendations specifically for anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder in children and young people aged between 6 and 24 years.

Delineating Quality Indicators of Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitalization.

Background: Assuring quality care is critical to the well-being and recovery of individuals receiving inpatient psychiatric treatment, yet a comprehensive map of quality inpatient care does not exist.

Aims: To isolate and describe quality elements of inpatient psychiatric treatment.

Methods: A survey queried psychiatric inpatient nursing leaders on what they considered to be critical elements of quality.

Exploring the thinking, reasoning and clinical approach of expert child psychiatric nurses.

Background: Expert nurses are characterized by their deep knowledge of patient situations and understanding of patients in the context of their total situation. We know of no studies that have focused on the expert practice of child/adolescent (C/A) psychiatric mental health (PMH) advanced practice nurse.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to gather information on how expert C/A advanced practice psychiatric nurses (APPNs) view their role and assess/treat children and adolescents with complex mental health issues.

Maximizing the Role of the Nurse: Strategies to Address Gaps in Asthma Care in Schools.

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to describe differences in the numbers of children with a diagnosis of asthma identified through two methods, determine barriers to receiving asthma interventions in elementary school settings, and make recommendations for action and advocacy for school nurses to increase the number of children with access to asthma medications at school.

Design And Methods: The authors conducted a review of the asthma diagnosis process from the initial identification of a diagnosis to the delivery of interventions with 349 enrolled students in one large, urban public school in Tennessee.

Results: Sixty children were identified using the school's existing parent identification process and 91 children who participated in a concurrent asthma education program self-identified or were referred by a teacher, staff, or administrator.

International facilitators and barriers to family engagement in the ICU: Results of a qualitative analysis.

Purpose: Patient and family engagement in the intensive care unit (ICU) is beneficial for patient recovery from critical illness. Yet limited information exists on facilitators and barriers from an international perspective.

Materials And Methods: As part of ongoing work from a task force of the World Federation of Intensive and Critical Care (WFICC) exploring international practices of family engagement from a survey of 345 healthcare clinicians from 43 countries, qualitative analysis was conducted for two open ended questions: 1) What are strategies that you and your colleagues have found helpful to promote patient and family-centered care/engagement in the ICU? and 2) What are potential barriers have you encountered in implementing patient and family-centered care/engagement in the ICU? Thematic content analysis was used to code data to identify major themes of facilitators and barriers of family engagement.

Ensuring accurate BP measurements.

Accurate BP measurements are vital for determining appropriate medication and treatment regimens. This article describes a quality improvement project to increase compliance with the American Heart Association's guidelines for BP measurement.