Scenario 1 Consider in light of legal requirements and nursing professional requirements, the issue below. Peter is a 30 old man with a 10 year history of bipolar affective disorder. His history shows that during depressive stages he frequently becomes suicidal and has in fact made several attempts to take his life over the last 7 years. He lives at home with his elderly and frail mother. She finds his illness and non compliance with medications very difficult. His mother calls you to tell
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Admitted for the First Time to a Mental Health Hospital Introduction Communication is one way of exchanging information and feelings from one person to another (Bach and Grant 2009). It is transmitted through verbal and non-verbal behaviour. Communication is an essential and fundamental aspect of nursing care (Timmins 2011). It is a major and important part of daily nursing practice in the nurse-client relationship (Sheldon et al. 2006). Communication in nursing is unique and it is different from
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academic writing for the Nursing Standard in 2006, ‘the term person-centred care is used…to indicate a strong interest in the patient’s own experience of health, illness, injury or need. It infers that the nurse works with the person’s definition of the situation, as well as that presented through a medical or other diagnosis’. (pg. 49 – 56) The notion of person-centeredness has become well recognized within healthcare and especially within Nursing (Binnie & Tichen 1999, McCormack
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by whom: what are their roles and responsibilities Mental health nurse | Expected outcomes i.e. how does care improve health and well-being of individual: | Monitoring her conditionMental health nurse | In her case, she would have been referred to a mental health nurse by the doctor. She has mental health needs (Alzheimer’s) and because of that, she needs to be monitored by a mental health nurse to ensure that she is safe. Mental health nurses are also there to assess people like Mrs Brown to be
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Distinguished Professor and Dean Emerita, University of Colorado Denver College of Nursing and Anschutz Medical Center, where she held an endowed Chair in Caring Science for 16 years. She is founder of the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She previously served as Dean of Nursing at the University Health Sciences Center and is a Past President of the National League for Nursing. Her latest activities include Founder and Director of the non-profit
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in a variety of fields for many years. Within nursing, the term ‘mentor’ denotes “A nurse, midwife or specialist community public health nurse who facilitates learning and supervises and assesses students in a practice setting”, (Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) 2005). The essay will explore the role of the mentor in the field of nursing, with personal reflection on the authors experience as a mentor in my current role as a community mental health nurse (CMHN). The mentor-mentee learning relationship
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A REFLECTIVE CLINICAL PRACTICE EXPERIENCE Introduction My reflective clinical practice experience was based on my eight weeks placement in an acute mental health ward in a hospital. I was not sure of what to expect because I have never worked or placed in an acute ward and this was my second placement. Before starting my placement, I visited the ward and was inducted around the ward. This gave me a bit of confidence and reassurance about working in an acute ward. Reflection is a process of
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Running Head: Mental Health Nursing The Consumer experience of mental health nursing Name Grade Course Tutor’s Name Date The Consumer experience of mental health nursing The articles by Sandy Jeffs, Simon Champ, Rene Geanellos, Ikwunga Wonodi & Robert Schwarcz and Alxander Arguello & Joseph Gogos have presented comprehensive and interesting contributions in reinforcing the literature on consumer experience of mental health nursing with specific reference to schizophrenia. A
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Virginia Hospital University of Virginia School of Nursing Margaret Halladay, Lillian McDonough, Chelsea Bateman, Olivia Robison, Elizabeth Whitsett, Hannah Knabe, Janie Rhodes, and Fangzhong Luo On our honor, as UVA students, we have neither given nor received aid on this assignment. Margaret Halladay, Lillian McDonough, Chelsea Bateman, Olivia Robison, Elizabeth Whitsett, Hannah Knabe, Janie Rhodes, and Fangzhong Luo Introduction The nursing students working on 5E, the psychiatric unit at
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and what my roles are as a mental health student nurse as well as a future mental health nurse practitioner. The essay will also identify an action plan off which will address my developmental needs as a student. Before I became a student nurse I decided to go into higher education by starting with an access course to nursing while working as a carer assistant. On completion of this course it led me to a place at university, to study mental health nursing as my passion is to make a difference
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