Emotional Dynamics in Integrated Care

Moral Distress in Intensive Care Unit Nurses: An Integrated Review

Introduction: Moral distress is a serious problem for health care professionals all over the world; it has detrimental effects for patients, nurses and organizations. Nurses in ICUs experience more moral distress due to their daily dealing with ethical problems and the stressful atmosphere. The purpose of this study was to conduct an integrated review and a combination of existing studies o...

Emotional Climate: Social Structure and Emotional Dynamics

Integrated Care: A Pill for All Ills?

There is an increasing policy emphasis on the integration of care, both within the healthcare sector and also between the health and social care sectors, with the simple aim of ensuring that individuals get the right care, in the right place, at the right time. However, implementing this simple aim is rather more complex. In this editorial, we seek to make sense of this complexity and ask: what...

Early Integrated Palliative Care and Reduced Emotional Distress in Cancer Caregivers: Reaching the “Hidden Patients”

Given that family and friend caregivers of patients with advanced cancer are affected physically and emotionally by the patient’s illness and are too often overlooked by health care systems, caregivers can be understood as “hidden patients” [1, 2]. Caregivers commonly take on new roles and responsibilities that can be physically and emotionally exhausting, while simultaneously grappling with em...

Emotional disorders in primary care.

Individuals with emotional disorders are more likely to use primary medical care than specialty mental health services, but these disorders are likely to be undetected or inadequately treated. Recognition of the importance of primary medical care for the treatment of mental disorder has resulted in pressing new research priorities. One set of issues concerns the adequacy of existing nosological...