How are Registered Nurses supporting the physical health of service users with serious mental illness?

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As experienced mental health and addiction educators we regularly reinforce to our undergraduate and postgraduate ākonga that each service user should be treated as a 'whole person', not just a diagnosis, especially since the life expectancy of service users with Serious Mental Illness continues to be below that of the general population.Holistic healthcare using Te Whare Tapa Whā framework (Durie, 1984) is not new to mental health nursing and is used extensively in the Whitireia postgraduate programme for nurses entering specialty mental health and addiction practice (Sculley & Smith, 2023).This ensures that taha tinana, the physical health component, is critically explored along with the other three pou, but this is not always reinforced in practice.A scoping literature review was undertaken to better understand how physical health issues are identified and managed in practice, and where current research places the role of Registered Nurses in supporting the physical health of service users in mental health and addiction services.The findings clearly identified a role for nurses in working alongside service users to assess and manage their physical health care, but unfortunately, there is still some reluctance to see this as a nursing responsibility in mental health and addiction settings.

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