PubMed · 5812271
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1969-10-02. Do mental nurses have a future?. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/5812271/
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The Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation applied the continuous quality improvement (CQI) concept of work process to the delivery of clinical services in each of its eight state psychiatric hospitals. Two different clinical processes were involved: (1) individualized psychiatric treatment and (2) medical treatment. The processes were then benchmarked against national leaders in the delivery of public psychiatric hospital services. This case study demonstrates the applicability of the work process concept to a clinical environment where it can function as a management tool that can significantly improve the quality and efficiency of services provided to individual patients.
We applied therapeutic community principles to a contemporary acute care psychiatric treatment program and investigated the effects upon milieu treatment variables using the Ward Atmosphere Scale (WAS) as a measure. Significant differences were found between experimental and control units on several scales of the WAS following the introduction of program changes. These differences indicated that the introduction of therapeutic community principles in treatment programming enhanced milieu factors that are conducive to patient recovery.
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