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Standardized routine outcome measurement: Pot holes in the road to recovery
Author(s) -
Lakeman Richard
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
international journal of mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.911
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1447-0349
pISSN - 1445-8330
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-8330.2004.00336.x
Subject(s) - witness , outcome (game theory) , mental health , reflection (computer programming) , psychology , mental health nursing , focus (optics) , medicine , nursing , public relations , computer science , psychiatry , political science , physics , mathematics , mathematical economics , optics , programming language
Abstract: Routine ‘outcome measurement’ is currently being introduced across Australian mental health services. This paper asserts that routine standardized outcome measurement in its current form can only provide a crude and narrow lens through which to witness recovery. It has only a limited capacity to capture the richness of people's recovery journeys or provide information that can usefully inform care. Indeed , in its implementation nurses may be required to collude in practices or account for practice in ways which run counter to the personal recovery paradigm. Nurses should view a focus on outcomes as an opportunity for critical reflection as well as to seek ways to account for recovery stories in meaningful ways.