Towards Holistic Healthcare: Advancing Nursing and Medical Education—2nd Edition

Dear colleagues,

This Special Issue, titled “Towards Holistic Healthcare: Advancing Nursing and Medical Education”, is dedicated to exploring the comorbidity of physical and psychiatric disorders in patients. The aim is to highlight the biopsychosocial model, according to which biological, psychological, and social parameters influence the predisposition, onset, course, and prognosis of most diseases. Many patients admitted to medical wards have co-occurring mental health issues, such as delirium, anxiety, depression, and dementia. unfortunately, a number of critically ill people remain untreated in hospitals due to unrecognized mental health issues, while the presence of psychological problems or psychiatric disorders is particularly common in chronic illness. When mental and physical illnesses coexist, this can result in worse health outcomes, longer hospital stays and more in-patient resources used, involvement from other related health services, prescription drug introduction, and discharge to long-term facilities, such as residential and nursing homes, as well as higher readmission and mortality rates. A higher percentage of mental illnesses coexist with physical illnesses, making interconnections between the medical and mental healthcare systems necessary. General hospitals place a high premium on the creation of liaison psychiatry services to address the requirements of patients with mental health issues who are admitted to medical wards.

This Special Issue aims to achieve the following:

• To give nurses and doctors a comprehensive awareness of the biopsychosocial model;
• To address the biological, psychological, and social needs of patients and their families;
• Το investigate drug interactions and side effects so that healthcare professionals can incorporate this knowledge into their daily clinical practice;
• To demonstrate the importance of education and training programs in equipping healthcare personnel with the skills and knowledge necessary to offer patients and their families holistic care;
• To clarify the discipline of consultation liaison psychiatry and highlight its role in general hospitals;
• To discuss how research conclusions could impact policy, with a focus on advocating for changes that enhance the standard and efficiency of care and recovery while also lowering hospitalization expenses and mortality.

Dr. Polyxeni Mangoulia
Prof. Dr. Pavlos M. Myrianthefs
Guest Editors

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