Telehealth – The Future for Advance Practice Mental Health Nursing

The enactment of President Obama's landmark Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) heralded the advent of technology into our nation's health care environment, as it gradually transforms from a historical fee-for-procedure orientation to one emphasizing “quality of care” as measured by client-centered metrics. Integrating mental and behavioral health care into primary care, as well as encouraging interprofessional team-based care, will increasingly become the norm. Numerous studies indicate that a significant proportion of those needing mental health care are simply not receiving care and further, that providers who prescribe psychotropic medications frequently do not possess the appropriate specialty training (DeLeon, De Oliveira,& Puente, in press).
Source: Archives of Psychiatric Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research