Practice framework outlines a nursing pathway for safe family caregiver involvement in mental health care, highlighting safeguards for patient consent and crisis boundaries.
Key Points
Translate qualitative evidence regarding family caregiver needs into a structured nursing pathway that delineates supportive engagement from inappropriate disclosure or clinical responsibility transfer.
Synthesized qualitative findings on caregiver support requirements in psychiatric and mental health services.
Formulated a three-step assessment pathway tailored for implementation within resource-constrained mental health settings.
Structured three mandatory nurse-led assessment checkpoints: confirming patient consent, evaluating caregiver capacity, and establishing explicit crisis boundaries.
Identified dedicated service-user, caregiver, and process metrics to monitor and evaluate implementation fidelity in clinical practice.