Art-based Therapy
To decrease the rate of 28 day re-admissions in the Cramond Clinic (Queen Elizabeth Hospital) from 13.7% to 5% within twelve months using an arts-based program.
To encompass a clinical governance framework for this project, all pillars extenuating the significance of accountability for improving consumer safety, quality and effectiveness within a health service will be discussed with relevance to the implications of an art-based therapy intervention (ACSQHC 2010; ANMC 2016). Effective clinical performance and evaluation will be demonstrated through the implementation, documentation, monitoring and review of best evidence-based art therapy practices in a safe and quality manner (Department of Health & Human Services 2013). …show more content…
To elaborate, this public health issue impacts approximately 46% of Australians aged between sixteen and eighty-five during their lifetime, with 1 in 5 Australians experiencing a mental illness in any year (AIHW 2016). It has become well recognised that the prevalence and burden of mental illness contribute to the increased morbidity, mortality as well as economic and societal costs within Australia (ABS 2008; AIHW 2016; National Mental Health Commission 2014). The negative implications of mental illness are substantially problematic with reduced quality of life and increased morbidity of those experiencing mental illness as well as the costly implications of extended hospital stays and higher readmission rates (AIHW 2016; Department of Health & Ageing 2013). Subsequently, a 2016 review by the AIHW found the daily cost per patient in acute psychiatric inpatient units, such as the Cramond Clinic in the QEH, amounts to an average of $1061, with 13.7% of these individuals readmitted within 28 days of discharge. Therefore, in an attempt to reduce these considerable healthcare costs and decrease the burden of illness in individuals and families, it is fundamental the utmost quality, safe and effective therapeutic inpatient practices are implemented within mental health care settings (ACSQHC 2010; AIHW 2016; Department of …show more content…
Therefore, to ensure the overarching medical, ethical and social needs of mental health consumers are met, it would be necessary to train and widen the skills of health practitioners such as nurses, by embracing a a person-centred, holistic and evidenced-based framework of art-based practices to essentially provide better and quality healthcare (ANMC
To decrease the rate of 28 day re-admissions in the Cramond Clinic (Queen Elizabeth Hospital) from 13.7% to 5% within twelve months using an arts-based program.
To encompass a clinical governance framework for this project, all pillars extenuating the significance of accountability for improving consumer safety, quality and effectiveness within a health service will be discussed with relevance to the implications of an art-based therapy intervention (ACSQHC 2010; ANMC 2016). Effective clinical performance and evaluation will be demonstrated through the implementation, documentation, monitoring and review of best evidence-based art therapy practices in a safe and quality manner (Department of Health & Human Services 2013). …show more content…
To elaborate, this public health issue impacts approximately 46% of Australians aged between sixteen and eighty-five during their lifetime, with 1 in 5 Australians experiencing a mental illness in any year (AIHW 2016). It has become well recognised that the prevalence and burden of mental illness contribute to the increased morbidity, mortality as well as economic and societal costs within Australia (ABS 2008; AIHW 2016; National Mental Health Commission 2014). The negative implications of mental illness are substantially problematic with reduced quality of life and increased morbidity of those experiencing mental illness as well as the costly implications of extended hospital stays and higher readmission rates (AIHW 2016; Department of Health & Ageing 2013). Subsequently, a 2016 review by the AIHW found the daily cost per patient in acute psychiatric inpatient units, such as the Cramond Clinic in the QEH, amounts to an average of $1061, with 13.7% of these individuals readmitted within 28 days of discharge. Therefore, in an attempt to reduce these considerable healthcare costs and decrease the burden of illness in individuals and families, it is fundamental the utmost quality, safe and effective therapeutic inpatient practices are implemented within mental health care settings (ACSQHC 2010; AIHW 2016; Department of …show more content…
Therefore, to ensure the overarching medical, ethical and social needs of mental health consumers are met, it would be necessary to train and widen the skills of health practitioners such as nurses, by embracing a a person-centred, holistic and evidenced-based framework of art-based practices to essentially provide better and quality healthcare (ANMC