fundamentals of nursing

1. GROUP 4

2. Group members
• Zawadi Lungu
• Moses Biton
• Prisca Majoni
• Katte Mulwafu
• Jayson Nyirenda
• Ellen Nkhata
• Patience Banda
• Martha Kondowe
• Emmanuel Selemani
• Janefefa Mbiro

3. Discuss the influence of deinstitutionalization
in the development of mental health services.
Definitions
Deinstitutionalization
• Refers to the government policy that moved mental health patients
out of state-run “insane asylums” into federally funded community
mental health centres.
• It began in the 1960s as a way to improve treatment of the mentally
ill while also cutting government budgets.
• The goal of deinstitutionalism was to provide care In the least
restrictive setting possible.

4. Mental health services
• Refers to a system of care in which the patients community not a
specific facility such as a hospital is the primary provider of care for
people with mental illness provider of care for people with mental
illness.

5. What influenced deinstitutionalization?
• Cutting of government costs/budgets.
• To improve treatment of the mentally ill.
• Reducing overcrowding of patients in the hospitals.
• More integrated community based mental health services this community
involvement.
• Dealing with the issue of discrimination where mentally ill patient when
treated In the community, the community itself will accept them as
incorporate them in there daily activities.
• Reducing acquired hospital infections in the institutions due to
overcrowding it is easy to get infections that can be prevented.
• Reduced the abuses in the hospitals from the psychiatry patients

6. • The introduction of the mental drugs such as clozapine and
chloropamazine which proved to have higher effects and duration
hence reducing hospitalization.
• Improve rights of mentally ill patients.

7. DISADVANTAGES
• Increased material and psychological costs of families, patients and
community members.
• Poor quality of life, social isolation and financial destitution(condition
of lacking something) of patients living in the community particularly
chronically disturbed persons.
• Lack of adequate supportive and psychiatric health care services for
patients living in the community.
• The promising of more services and results than the system was
prepared to deliver and personal problems within the health care
delivery system.

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