Ethical challenges for nurses delivering coercive interventions in community mental health settings: A scoping review.
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Article Title | Ethical challenges for nurses delivering coercive interventions in community mental health settings: A scoping review. |
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ERA Journal ID | 14085 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Haines, Stephen, Stanton, Robert, Anderson, Carina and Welsh, Anthony |
Journal Title | International Journal of Mental Health Nursing |
Number of Pages | 10 |
Year | 2024 |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Place of Publication | Australia |
ISSN | 1324-3780 |
1445-8330 | |
1447-0349 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.13290 |
Web Address (URL) | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/inm.13290 |
Abstract | The number of Australians subject to coercive interventions in community mental health services continues to increase. This is in the context of a growing awareness of the harms from coercion, increasing concerns about potential breaches of human rights and an ongoing uncertainty regarding the clinical benefits of community treatment orders, the primary instrument of legislated coercion in community mental health services. Nurses in community mental health services are on the frontline with regard to coercion. They police the requirements of the community treatment order, administer medication to people in community settings without their consent and facilitate re-hospitalisation if indicated. Coercive practice contradicts the person-centred, recovery-oriented and trauma-informed care principles that inform contemporary mental health nursing. This contradiction may generate ethical challenges for nurses and result in ethical distress. The aim of this scoping review was to map the research literature on how nurses in community mental health settings recognise and manage the harm associated with the administration of coercive interventions and consider the ethical challenges that may arise within this practice. The search strategy yielded 562 studies with author consensus determining a total of three articles as meeting the inclusion criteria. The resulting literature identified three themes: (1) maintaining the therapeutic relationship, (2) promoting autonomy and (3) using subtle forms of control. This review demonstrated that there is minimal research that has considered the ethical challenges related to the use of coercion by nurses in community mental health settings. |
Keywords | bioethics; coercion; community mental health centres; mental health; psychiatric nursing. |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 420504. Mental health nursing |
Byline Affiliations | Central Queensland University |
School of Nursing and Midwifery |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/z4wzz/ethical-challenges-for-nurses-delivering-coercive-interventions-in-community-mental-health-settings-a-scoping-review
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