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Palliative-Behavioral Health Collaborations Benefit Patients with Serious Mental Illnesses

Hospice News

Palliative care providers have opportunities to bridge gaps of unmet needs among patients who have serious mental illnesses (SMIs) and their families. People with SMIs navigate a complicated mental health care system that can become even more challenging when they have a serious or chronic physical illness.

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Working with Patients with Serious Mental Illness and Using LAIs

Daily Nurse

Have you ever wondered what it was like to work with patients who live with serious mental illness? I find satisfaction in helping others explore their lives, why they see the world the way they do, and how to make choices that help them reach their goals. What kind of care do you provide for them? What drew you to it?

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August Issue: CBT for Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia, RNs’ Role in Transforming Primary Care, More

AJN Off the Charts

“It is not to save the world we are called—it is to care.”—Alison ”—Alison Stoltzfus in her August Reflections essay, “To Care When There Isn’t Enough” The August issue of AJN is now live. The Role of RNs in Transforming Primary Care. Here’s what’s new.

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A Career In Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

Diversity Nursing

1 in 20 Americans lived with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression. 1 in 20 Americans lived with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression. T he pandemic has increased the need for Mental Health care. is $87,156.

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Antipsychotic medication reduction and the severely mentally ill population

The World According to Dr. El

President Biden’s State of the Union address last week targeted several aspects of the long-term care industry, most of which have received more attention than his mention of reducing the inappropriate use of antipsychotic medications. Given the changes wrought by COVID-19 (i.e., Necessary, but insufficient. The challenges.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

GeriPal

Potential use in palliative care , chronic pain , and for mood disorders is tantalizing. We’re welcoming to talk about this, Stacey Fischer, who has been on this podcast before, I think several times, who is a geriatrician and palliative care doc, and psilocybin researcher. And yet there are reasons for caution.

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Nursing Behind Bars: My Experience As a Corrections Nurse

Nurse.com

He needed more care than we could provide. But the truth is that there were people with so many different illness who lived under the roof of that jail — people with substance use disorders, people with schizophrenia, and victims of mental and physical trauma who had never received formal treatment and the chance to heal.

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