Mental health actions and nurse’s work

Mental Health and Work : Mental Health and Work: Norway

Executive summary Assessment and recommendations Chapter 1. Mental health and work challenges in Norway Chapter 2. Reconsidering Norwegian sickness absence policies Chapter 3. Revising disability benefit assessment procedures and eligibility criteria in Norway Chapter 4. Enhancing the effectiveness of Norway’s vocational rehabilitation system Chapter 5. Involving mental health care in Norway in...

Impaired work functioning due to common mental disorders in nurses and allied health professionals: the Nurses Work Functioning Questionnaire

PURPOSE Common mental disorders (CMD) negatively affect work functioning. In the health service sector not only the prevalence of CMDs is high, but work functioning problems are associated with a risk of serious consequences for patients and healthcare providers. If work functioning problems due to CMDs are detected early, timely help can be provided. Therefore, the aim of this study is to deve...

Burnout and work environments of public health nurses involved in mental health care.

AIMS (1) To examine whether prevalence of burnout is higher among community psychiatric nurses working under recently introduced job specific work systems than among public health nurses (PHNs) engaged in other public health services. (2) To identify work environment factors potentially contributing to burnout. METHODS Two groups were examined. The psychiatric group comprised 525 PHNs primari...

Nurses for Public Health Work

Since 1920 an international course of training in Public Health Nursing, organised by the Red Cross Societies, has been held at Bedford College for Women in order to meet the increasing demand in all countries for nurses qualified for service in the Public Health field. This year the students have more than maintained the high standard set by former groups, and all sixteen students received the...

Mental Health and Social Work