RESUMO
This mental health training program was designed to increase primary care nurses' knowledge and skills about depression. The program emphasized criteria for assessing depression, presented psychopharmacologic and psychotherapeutic content, discussed care coordination among several agencies and providers, and addressed referral resources. Cultural and developmental issues were highlighted. The 237 participants had significant knowledge gains after the program on comparison of pretest and posttest measures. Client record audit found significant increases in the assessment of and intervention with depression. The training program successfully increased primary care nurses' abilities to use knowledge about depression in clinical practice.
Assuntos
Enfermagem em Saúde Comunitária/educação , Transtorno Depressivo/enfermagem , Educação Continuada em Enfermagem/normas , Avaliação em Enfermagem/normas , Adulto , Idoso , Transtorno Depressivo/diagnóstico , Transtorno Depressivo/terapia , Educação Continuada em Enfermagem/métodos , Feminino , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Pesquisa em Educação em Enfermagem , Avaliação de Programas e Projetos de Saúde , Inquéritos e QuestionáriosRESUMO
The purpose of this mental health training program was to increase primary care nurses' knowledge and skills about depression. The program emphasized criteria for assessing depression, presented psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic content, discussed care coordination among multiple agencies and providers, and addressed referral resources. Highlighted were cultural and developmental issues for Native Americans, Mexican-Americans, the elderly, and adolescents. The training program successfully increased primary care nurses' knowledge about depression and their abilities to use this knowledge in clinical practice.
Assuntos
Enfermagem em Saúde Comunitária/educação , Transtorno Depressivo/enfermagem , Avaliação em Enfermagem/métodos , Enfermagem Primária/métodos , Adulto , Características Culturais , Currículo , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-IdadeRESUMO
The art of caring to alleviate illness and to promote health is nursing's unique commitment to society and the health-care industry. How this practice is implemented dictates the success or failure of prescribed strategies. In addition, the way in which caring is implemented defines emotional maturity on both a personal and professional level. Several goals to rehabilitate the psychologically codependent person include: Developing an awareness of the origins of codependency and how early family experiences affect subsequent behavior and beliefs about oneself; Identifying the personal price and payoffs for continuing codependent behaviors; The ability to openly express personal needs, wishes, feelings, and opinions while respecting the rights of others; Learning to discriminate between loving/caring and the destructive control of codependency; and The ability to take responsibility for another rather than being responsible to another. Codependent behaviors are prevalent within professional nursing practice, as evidenced by examples provided from three specialty areas in nursing and the fact that women (who are traditionally assigned the cultural role of caring) constitute the majority of professional nurses. Therefore, it is a professional challenge to each nurse to ascertain whether practices are functional or dysfunctional: is the professional interpretation of caring a commitment to excellence or a condemnation to conformity in the unique delivery of health-care practice?
