tailieunhanh - Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing in the BSN Curriculum: Collaboratively Developed by ISPN and APNA, (2007-2008) approved 5/08

We must keep in mind that launching of this dedicated satellite will not be an easy task. The reason is that it will involve number of nations and has to be established as a joint venture of different nationalities and cultures for a common agenda. This is a huge project and will involve bout 100 countries or so. Getting them all to agree for this project will be a challenging and intimidating task. The other main challenges before launching of this satellite will be-designing of the satellite, meeting the recurring and non recurring expenses of satellite, ensuring that the. | 1 Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing in the BSN Curriculum Collaboratively Developed by ISPN and APNA 2007-2008 approved 5 08 During the period from 1998 to 2008 the significance of mental health issues in contributing to the mortality and morbidity of populations worldwide has been increasingly documented. It has been identified that approximately 450 million people suffer from mental or neurological disorders or from psychosocial problems such as those related to alcohol and drug abuse World Health Organization 2001 . The World Health Organization WHO has also identified that understanding how inseparable mental and physical health really are and how their influence on each other is complex and profound. WHO also states that mental health - neglected for far too long - is crucial to the overall well-being of individuals societies and countries and must be universally regarded in a new light WHO 2001 p ix . Mental health has also been identified as a national health priority by Healthy People 2010 http and the US Surgeon General http . This report developed by a consortium of 400 national membership organizations state and territorial health departments and key national associations of State health officials identified nine priority health indicators related to mental health substance abuse concerns. The priorities include tobacco use substance abuse responsible sexual behavior mental health injury and violence and access to health care. The mortality rate for persons with schizophrenia is four times higher than the general population they have a fivefold higher risk of myocardial infarction a higher risk for cardiovascular disease and have higher rates of new-onset diabetes than that of the general population Enger et al. 2004 Chafetz et al. 2005 Chwastiak et al. 2006 Muir-Cochrane 2006 Salokangas 2007 . Furthermore the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome is higher among patients receiving Clozapine .