Psychiatric Mental Health (PMH) Nurse is a speciality of nursing which includes caring for individuals, families, and communities with mental illnesses as well as those in mental distress based on their assessment of mental health needs. It involves not only understanding the basis of neurobiological processes and its relation to mental health but also focusing on developmental health and how it affects an individual. The nurse must also be able to integrate physical components of nursing while using holistic approaches to care which focuses on an individual’s needs as a whole and appeals to social, physical, environmental, and psychological aspects The nurse is capable of assessing, diagnosing and treating individuals with mental illness or those with the potential of having an illness. The core of this particular field is to develop therapeutic relationships and communication with the clients while interventions based on needs of the clients. The concept of nursing began in the pre-historic times during 5th Century BC where people believed spirit had possessed one’s body, and as result, had to be “driven out”. During the middle ages, individuals with mental illness were confined to mental asylums as superstitions circulated that they possessed mysticism or were involved …show more content…
Health issues can be addressed from a more holistic approach which involves enabling individuals to increase control over determinants of health in order to achieve optimum health. An aspect of health promotion involves changing the lifestyle of individuals by increasing awareness and creating environments in which good health practices are