introduction: job burnout results from the reaction to the chronic psychological stress and it mainly occurs in care services. it may lead to consequences such as job cost, reduced performance and fatigue. this study aimed to investigate the nursing administrators and chief executive officers job burnout in three areas of depersonalization, fatigue and emotional exhaustion and its relation to s...

It is a fairly new idea for us in our hospitals to introduce Occupational Therapy as part of the curative treatment for mental patients. In America, I believe, it has been adopted extensively and on a much more elaborate scale than we can hope to achieve here for some time. Nevertheless, it is evident that it is being recognised now as one of the necessary factors in the treatment of mental pat...

A number of publications in recent years have pointed out that, as a result of alterations in the laws relating to the care of the insane, of new methods of treatment, and of the changing public attitude to mental illness, important changes have occurred during the last 25 years in the type of patient admitted to hospital, and in the average length of stay. Fitzgerald (1954), Norris (1952), and...

The Manchester Regional Hospital Board has done a great and public-spirited service to the profession of mental nursing through fhe publication of this report of a job analysis carried out at their instigation by Mr. H. A. Goddard and his co-workers. The report comprises a detailed survey of the day to day work of the nurses of all grades in two mental deficiency hospitals and one mental hospit...

OBJECTIVE Older patients with comorbid mental illness are shown to receive less appropriate care for their medical conditions. This study analyzed Medicare patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and determined whether those with comorbid mental illness were more likely to present to hospitals with lower quality of AMI care. METHODS Retrospective analyses of Medicare claim...

BACKGROUND Globally, a significant 'mental health gap' exists between the major burden of mental and substance use disorders and the provision of psychiatric and mental health services. As a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, South Africa has committed itself to transformation aimed at ending the inequities that characterise mental health service provisio...