Lucy Marion, PhD, RN, FAAN¹, Judith McDevitt, PhD RN², Susan Braun, MS, RN, APRN, BC², Margaret N. Noyes, ND, APN, CNP², and Margaret Noyes, ND, APN, CNP². (1) School of Nursing, Medical College of Georgia, 997 St. Sebastian Way, Augusta, GA 30912, 706-721-3771, LUMARION@mail.mcg.edu, (2) College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 S. Damen, Chicago, IL 60612

Integrated primary and mental health care for people with severe and persistent mental illness is rare. This presentation describes how an academic nursing center, initiated in 1998, has supported the scholarly productivity of community-based nursing faculty specializing in mental health, community health, primary care, and clinical management and leadership. At the Center for Integrated Health Care (IHC), advanced nursing faculty provide the integrated care in collaboration with family, psychiatric, and referral physicians and other professionals to deliver primary care to "members" of a large, multi site psychosocial rehabilitation agency using a clubhouse model. The level of client complexity is high due to adverse effects of psychotropic medications and co morbidity such as diabetes, substance abuse, and smoking. Clinician/teachers and students provide outreach services to members in group homes, day programs, and drug treatment facilities. The presentation will report quantitative indicators of faculty scholarly productivity, including the improved health services outcomes of member encounters, income and expenditures, satisfaction, and health status quality indicators; faculty and student publications, presentations, recognitions and awards; foundation and donor support; type and number of students supported by faculty-clinicians and the on line learning module developed; and programs and funding of research.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this session, the participant will be able to
• Describe a community based nursing center designed to integrate mental and physical health care
• List the type of advanced nursing faculty and students who contribute to health care services
• Discuss and describe a variety of scholarly products from nursing faculty in the center.

Keywords: Education, Practice-Based Research

Related Web page: www.uic.edu/nursing/pma/services/ihc/

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.