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Challenges for nurses who work in community mental health centres in the West Bank, Palestine
BACKGROUND: Nurses in Palestine (occupied Palestinian territory) work in a significantly challenging environment. The mental health care system is underdeveloped and under-resourced. For example, the total number of nurses who work in community mental health centres in the West Bank is seventeen, cl...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5210163/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28066504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13033-016-0112-4 |
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description | BACKGROUND: Nurses in Palestine (occupied Palestinian territory) work in a significantly challenging environment. The mental health care system is underdeveloped and under-resourced. For example, the total number of nurses who work in community mental health centres in the West Bank is seventeen, clearly insufficient in a total population of approximately three million. This research explored daily challenges that Palestinian community mental health nurses (CMHNs) face within and outside their demanding workplaces. METHODS: An interpretive qualitative design was chosen. Face-to-face interviews were completed with fifteen participants. Thirty-two hours of observations of the day-to-day working environment and workplace routines were conducted in two communities’ mental health centres. Written documents relating to practical job-related policies were also collected from various workplaces. Thematic analysis was used across all data sources resulting in four main themes, which describe the challenges faced by CMHNs. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: These themes consist of the context of unrest, stigma, lack of resources, and organisational or mental health system challenges. The study concludes with a better understanding of challenges in nursing which draws on wider cultural contexts and resilience. The outcomes from this study can be used to decrease the challenges for health professionals and enhance the mental health care system in Palestine. |
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spelling | pubmed-52101632017-01-06 Challenges for nurses who work in community mental health centres in the West Bank, Palestine Marie, Mohammad Hannigan, Ben Jones, Aled Int J Ment Health Syst Research BACKGROUND: Nurses in Palestine (occupied Palestinian territory) work in a significantly challenging environment. The mental health care system is underdeveloped and under-resourced. For example, the total number of nurses who work in community mental health centres in the West Bank is seventeen, clearly insufficient in a total population of approximately three million. This research explored daily challenges that Palestinian community mental health nurses (CMHNs) face within and outside their demanding workplaces. METHODS: An interpretive qualitative design was chosen. Face-to-face interviews were completed with fifteen participants. Thirty-two hours of observations of the day-to-day working environment and workplace routines were conducted in two communities’ mental health centres. Written documents relating to practical job-related policies were also collected from various workplaces. Thematic analysis was used across all data sources resulting in four main themes, which describe the challenges faced by CMHNs. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: These themes consist of the context of unrest, stigma, lack of resources, and organisational or mental health system challenges. The study concludes with a better understanding of challenges in nursing which draws on wider cultural contexts and resilience. The outcomes from this study can be used to decrease the challenges for health professionals and enhance the mental health care system in Palestine. BioMed Central 2017-01-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5210163/ /pubmed/28066504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13033-016-0112-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Marie, Mohammad Hannigan, Ben Jones, Aled Challenges for nurses who work in community mental health centres in the West Bank, Palestine |
title | Challenges for nurses who work in community mental health centres in the West Bank, Palestine |
title_full | Challenges for nurses who work in community mental health centres in the West Bank, Palestine |
title_fullStr | Challenges for nurses who work in community mental health centres in the West Bank, Palestine |
title_full_unstemmed | Challenges for nurses who work in community mental health centres in the West Bank, Palestine |
title_short | Challenges for nurses who work in community mental health centres in the West Bank, Palestine |
title_sort | challenges for nurses who work in community mental health centres in the west bank, palestine |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5210163/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28066504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13033-016-0112-4 |
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